Bills in the 2013 Regular Session, House.
John L. Moore
Sponsored
Became law2
Mississippi Charter Schools Act of 2013; create.
Districts under conservator; provide for special election in certain to fill vacancies on school board.
Passed the House6
Teacher and administrator licensure; clarify grounds for denial and reinstatement procedures.
Cooperatives; provide for the incorporation of.
School district financial procedures; clarify distribution of funds and time of payment of employee salaries and wages.
Certified academic language therapy; include in category of individuals eligible for annual salary supplement.
Financial literacy curriculum; require State Board of Education to revise grades for which offered.
Education Works: Mississippi Literacy-Based Promotion Act/performance-based pay; create.
Out of committee7
Elected school boards; elect all members at time of presidential election.
National board certified school employees; remove requirement that annual salary supplement be subject to legislative appropriation.
Education Enhancement Fund; authorize SDE to use portion of allocation for purchase of certain technology projects.
School district superintendents; require all to be appointed beginning in 2016.
Tax levy to support school districts; authorize levying authority to veto school board request for increase up to seven percent.
School choice; establish opportunity scholarships and open enrollment for public school students.
Opportunity Scholarship Program; create for low income students to attend nonpublic schools.
In committee30
School term; reduces number of days in scholastic year to 170.
School nurses; authorize to administer auto-injectable epinephrine to students.
Assistant teachers; require school districts to notify of nonreemployment within 15 days after adoption of budget.
School superintendents; revise minimum qualification of for purpose of being employed as.
Teacher Classroom and Disciplinary Control Act; create.
County school board members; require to declare party affiliation and be elected by a majority vote.
Capital murder; provide death penalty for murder of two or more persons.
Capital murder; apply to multiple murders.
Teachers; extend years for annual incremental increases from 35 to 40 years.
Driver's license; allow a licensee to not list his physical home address on.
Textbooks; authorize flexibility in use of alternative electronic forms of.
MAEP; clarify to remove strict interpretation of MDE to request full funding of MAEP at budget hearing.
School board members; increase qualifications of to be eligible for selection as.
Emergency medical personnel; revise requirements for training and certification programs for.
Rape; death penalty for conviction if victim is age 13 or under.
Crimes; revise penalties for fraudulent use of identity of another.
MAEP; bring forward sections relating to for purpose of possible revisions.
Sales tax; exempt retail sales of school supplies during the last weekend in July.
MAEP; increase amount pledged for security for State Aid Capitol Improvement Bonds to $195.00 per pupil.
Graduation requirements; require ACT to serve as high school exit exam in lieu of subject area tests.
Medicaid; recipients shall be subject to random drug tests for eligibility to continue receiving benefits.
Income tax; authorize deduction for private school tuition, expenses for home schooled students and certain public school expenses.
School revenue; provide levying authority with veto power relating to request for increase in tax measure for.
Eligibility of children in certain licensed residential facilities to receive federal education funds; provide.
Mississippi judicial system; prohibit from using international or Sharia law.
Student transfer; prohibit school boards in failing districts from denying to better performing district.
Student grades; enhance penalty imposed on school districts for individuals who influence falsification of.
School personnel; prohibit engaging in political activity while in performance of official duties.
School textbook fund; clarify purposes for which funds may be used.
Appropriation; Department of Education for certain school districts for support of digital interactive learning pilot programs.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 25
Mississippi Highway 15; designate certain bridge in Chickasaw County as the "Representative William E. 'Billy' Bowles Memorial Bridge".
Appropriation; Tombigbee River Valley Water Management District.
Appropriation; Public Employees' Retirement System.
Appropriation; Oil and Gas Board.
Appropriation; Real Estate Commission.
Appropriation; Real Estate Appraiser Licensing and Certification Board.
Appropriation; Athletic Commission.
Appropriation; Medical Licensure, Board of.
Appropriation; Physical Therapy Board.
Appropriation; Psychology, Board of.
Appropriation; Coast Coliseum Commission.
Appropriation; Nursing Home Administrators, Board of.
Appropriation; Nursing, Board of.
Appropriation; Engineers and Land Surveyors, Board of Registration for Professional.
Appropriation; Cosmetology, Board of.
Appropriation; Social Workers and Marriage and Family Therapists, Board of Examiners for.
Appropriation; Veterans' Home Purchase Board.
Appropriation; Auctioneers Commission.
Appropriation; Barber Examiners, Board of.
Appropriation; Optometry, Board of.
Appropriation; Education, Department of.
Appropriation; Educational Television, Authority for.
Appropriation; Library Commission.
Appropriation; Archives and History, Department of.
Appropriation; Arts Commission.
Passed the House · 6
Post-conviction relief; revise time limitation.
Eligibility of children in certain licensed residential facilities to receive federal education funds; provide.
Reading Proficiency Program; establish in public schools to achieve grade level reading by end of 3rd grade.
Concealed firearms on school premises; require local school board to adopt policy authorizing certain school employees to carry.
Mississippi Tort Claims Act; revise to include volunteer fire departments when performing governmental activities.
Schoolchildren's Religious Liberties Act; create.
Out of committee · 2
Firearm Protection Act; enact.
Occupational diploma; revise manner of issuance to increase employment opportunities for students with special needs.
In committee · 10
School superintendents; revise minimum qualifications for elected and appointed.
Election polling places; specify persons who may be present.
Firearms; declare that are not subject to federal law or regulation if manufactured and contained within Mississippi.
Mississippi Health Care Freedom of Choice Act; create.
Public funds; prohibit use of to pay cost of drugs used for treatment of sexual or erectile dysfunction.
Gun buy-back programs; prohibit.
Parole; require offender serve at least 1/3 of sentence and that commissioner recommend parole before offender is eligible for.
Mississippi judicial system; prohibit from using international or Sharia law.
Bonds; authorize issuance to provide funds for improvements to certain portion of Mississippi Highway 25 in City of Flowood.
Bonds; authorize for Phase II of construction of a new headquarters building for the Department of Public Safety.