Bills in the 2015 Regular Session, House.
John L. Moore
Sponsored
Became law5
Education Commission of the States; authorize the entrance of the State of Mississippi into the Compact for Education.
New Start School Program; revise provisions relating to the administration of.
School district budget; require State Board of Ed to adopt rules and regulations for examining fiscal stability of ending balances.
MS Dyslexia Forgivable Loan Program; revise post education employment requirements for recipients of.
State Health Insurance Management Board; prohibit from imposing premium surcharge based on use of tobacco products.
Passed the House9
Divorce; revise habitual cruel and inhuman treatment to include verbal, emotional or psychological abuse.
Council on Education Technology; reestablish and define responsibilities.
Compressed Natural Gas School Bus Purchase Grants Program; require State Dept. of Ed. to establish.
Mississippi Employer-Assisted Housing Teacher Program; revise administration of.
MAEP; determine cost of using average daily membership (ADM) in lieu of ADA with 95% threshold attendance trigger.
Universal reading screener; require development and use of for students in Kindergarten and Grades 1-3.
Reading screening assessment; require MS Reading Panel to make one screener available for required use in Grades K-3.
School accreditation; impose administrative sanctions upon districts having had their accreditation withdrawn by the SBE.
Teacher/Classroom supply procurement cards; increase allocation percentage for teachers in first three years of educational service.
Out of committee2
MHSAA and local school boards; authorize to stipulate that participation in extracurricular activities is a privilege, not a right.
MAEP; revise definition of "at-risk pupils" for purpose of determining the 5% adjustment to base student cost.
In committee38
Student grades; enhance penalty imposed on school districts for influencing falsification of.
School revenue; provide local levying authority with veto power of school board's request for increase in tax measure.
School personnel; prohibit from engaging in political activity while in performance of official duties.
Statewide testing procedure; impose criminal and civil penalty for false certification of secure admin. of to the SDE.
MAEP; increase amount pledged for security for State Aid Capitol Improvement Bonds to $195.00 per pupil.
School district superintendents; require all to be appointed beginning in 2016.
Sixteenth section lands; assign managerial duties to Secretary of State during district's conservatorship.
School boards; elect all at presidential election for four-year terms.
Statewide testing protocol; prescribe criminal penalties for violations of and falsifying certification information relating to.
School accountability system; remove requirement for a combined state federal system.
Student transfer; prohibit board of failing school districts from denying requests to better performing schools or districts.
MAEP funds; require school districts to identify categories of funds by maintaining separate accounts for each.
CPR; clarify the cohort of students required to receive instruction in as a component of physical education.
Charter schools; revise manner of determining amount of local funding to be paid by school district to.
Textbooks; authorize flexibility in use of alternative electronic forms of.
County school board members; require to declare party affiliation.
Failing school districts; authorize SBE to place in administrative receivership for purpose of allowing successful districts to manage and operate.
Statewide testing protocol; prescribe penalties and sanction for violations of testing procedures and falsifying certification.
Administrator's license; revoke those whose districts or schools are considered failing for 3 consecutive years.
School district annual reports; revise the time and manner by which such are published and made available to public.
School districts financial advisors; require those appointed by State Supt. of Public Education to be deemed as independent contractors.
Administrative expenditures; require each school district to annually reduce amount budgeted for.
Assistant teachers; increase base salary by $500.
School resource officers; revise educational training requirement as a condition of employment.
MAEP; revise computation of local contribution by increasing millage to 29 mills or 30% of the total education cost for the district.
MAEP; reduce amount of increase to recalculate base student cost from 40% to 20%.
Education Enhancement Fund; include teachers employed at public special purpose school in definition of teacher for classroom supply funds.
School district takeover; provide for selection of new school board members upon return to local control on a phased-in basis.
School districts accreditation; impose sanctions upon those having accreditation status withdrawn.
Mississippi Commission on College and Career Readiness; establish to recommend new standards to replace Common Core.
State Board of Education; revise authority to administer oaths and take depositions in investigative matters.
Mississippi judicial system; prohibit from using international or Sharia law.
Rape; death penalty for conviction if victim is age 13 or under.
Crimes; revise penalties for fraudulent use of identity of another.
Cooperative; provide for incorporation of.
Income tax; authorize deduction for private school tuition, expenses for home schooled students and certain public schools.
Sales tax; exempt retail sales of school supplies during the last weekend in July.
Freedom Scholarship Tax Credit Act; create.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 24
City of Brandon; authorize contracts for naming rights for the city's park buildings and structures.
Appropriation; Tombigbee River Valley Water Management District.
Appropriation; Public Employees' Retirement System.
Appropriation; Oil and Gas Board.
Appropriation: Real Estate Commission and 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 · 3
Mississippi "Gospel Music Trail"; authorize MDA Division of Tourism to establish program and historical markers for.
Dyslexia Therapy Scholarship for Students with Dyslexia Program; delete repealer on.
Income tax; phase out for individuals.
Out of committee · 2
School attendance; authorize exemptions from vaccinations for medical reasons or conscientious beliefs for.
Compact for a Balanced Budget; enact.
In committee · 6
School board members; increase annual salary of and remove prohibition on membership in PERS.
Medical providers; provide health benefit plans must allow participation by and reimbursement to if licensed and within scope of practice.
Accredited Law Enforcement Agencies Award Fund; create to pay awards to law enforcement officers in state accredited agencies.
Sales tax; increase diversion to municipalities.
Appropriations; MS Community College Board to provide support for formal river barge training school at Hinds Comm. College.
Appropriation; DFA for first-year cost of constructing, furnishing & equipping a new Dept. of Public Safety Headquarters.