Bills in the 2016 Regular Session, House.
John L. Moore
Sponsored
Became law4
Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs Act; revise definition of "eligible student" to include those with an active IEP for past five years.
Financial advisors; require those appointed by the State Supt. of Public Education to certain school districts to be independent contractors.
EEF Procurement Cards; revise definition of "teachers" to include those employed at public special purpose schools to receive.
National Board Certified Teachers; clarify process for reimbursement.
Vetoed1
State Dept. of Education; remove from certain State Personnel Board procedures for a total of five years.
Passed the House5
Literacy-Based Promotion Act; revise and clarify provisions relating to retention to 3rd Grade accountability assessments.
Teacher certification; provide exemption for qualification for licensure to certain individuals.
MAEP; bring forward related sections for purpose of possible revisions.
Council on Education Technology; reestablish and define responsibilities.
Financial literacy curriculum; require the State Board of Education to implement for all students in Grades 9-12.
Out of committee5
Literacy-Based Promotion Act; clarify training component provided to teachers by the State Dept. of Education.
Student transfer; prohibit board of failing districts from denying requests to better performing schools or districts.
National Board Certified Teacher Incentive Pilot Program; create to provide additional salary supplement to those who teach in areas in need.
"Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs Act"; revise and rename the "Equal Opportunity for All Students Act."
School boards; elect all at presidential election for four-year term.
In committee40
Administrator's license; revoke those whose districts or schools are considered failing for three consecutive years.
School personnel; prohibit from engaging in political activity while in performance of official duties.
Council on Education Technology; reestablish and define responsibilities.
Student grades; enhance penalty imposed on school districts for influencing falsification of.
Teach For America instructors; allow one-year exemption to pass required reading instruction assessment for initial elementary education licensure.
County school board members; require to declare party affiliation.
Administrative expenditures; require each school district to annually reduce amount budgeted for.
School accreditation; impose administrative sanctions upon districts having had accreditation withdrawn by the SBE.
Motorcycles; authorize certain persons to ride without wearing a helmet.
State Dept. of Education; remove from certain State Personnel Board procedures for a total of ten years.
State Dept. of Education employees; include in definition of "non state service" for purposes of State Personnel Board exemptions.
Community and junior colleges; to clarify that mid-level funding is in discretion of the Legislature.
Teacher/classroom supply procurement cards; increase allocation percentage for teachers in first three years of educational service.
Reading screening assessment; require MS Reading Panel to make one screener available for use in Grades K-3.
Failing school districts; authorize the SBE to place in administrative receivership for purpose of allowing successful districts to manage.
Appropriations; Department of Education for funding the World Class Teaching Program.
Sales tax; exempt retail sales of school supplies during the last weekend in July.
Income tax; authorize deduction for private school tuition, expenses for home schooled students and certain public schools.
MAEP; revise computation of local contribution by increasing millage to 29 mills or 30% of the total district education cost.
MAEP; reduce amount of increase to recalculate base student cost from 40% to 20%.
MAEP; revise definition of "at-risk pupils" for purpose of determining the 5% adjustment to base student cost.
MAEP; determine cost of using average daily membership (ADM) in lieu of ADA with 95% threshold attendance trigger.
MAEP funds; require school districts to identify categories of funds by maintaining separate accounts for each.
MAEP; remove requirement that the Legislature shall fully fund annually.
Motorcycles; authorize to proceed through stalled traffic using portion of left and right lanes on four lane road.
Motorcycles; authorize to proceed through red light if green light is not triggered.
Crimes; revise penalties for fraudulent use of identity of another.
Rape; death penalty for conviction if victim is age 13 or under.
Divorce; revise habitual cruel and inhuman treatment to include verbal, emotional or psychological abuse.
Graduation requirements; require SBE to administer an American Civics assessment as part of statewide testing program and for students to pass as a condition of.
Sixteenth section land; assign managerial duties to Secretary of State during district's conservatorship.
Sixteenth section lands; remove requirement for minimum number of bidders in order for school board to auction for hunting and fishing lease rights.
School district superintendents; require all to be appointed beginning in 2019.
Literacy-Based Promotion Act; bring forward provision relating to for purposes of possible amendments.
Sex-related education; revise curriculum content and rename as "personal responsibility" education.
School Choice; establish statewide open enrollment for public school students.
Charter schools; authorize open enrollment across school district lines.
Tax Credit Scholarship; enact to provide qualifying students eligibility to use to cover eligible education expenses.
Psychiatric residential treatment facilities; prohibit SDE from reducing funding provided due to reduced legislative appropriation to the dept.
Board of Funeral Service; require to adopt rules establishing criteria for continuing education.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 11
State buildings; rename the PERS building as the "Timothy Alan (Tim) Ford Building."
Mississippi See Something, Say Something Act of 2016; enact.
"Mississippi Church Protection Act"; create.
Memorial highway ; designate segment of Mississippi Highway 182 in the City of Columbus as the "Rep. Esther M. Harrison Memorial Highway."
Appropriation; Education, Department of.
Appropriation; Educational Television, Authority for.
Appropriation; Library Commission.
Appropriation; Arts Commission.
Appropriation; Archives and History, Department of.
Appropriation; Transportation, Department of.
City of Flowood; authorize to enter in certain long-term agreements for conference center, hotel and ancillary buildings.
Passed the House · 6
Firearms; clarify meaning of courthouse and courtroom for purpose of carrying.
Firearms; restrict regulations by certain public bodies regarding.
Firearms; prohibit enforcement of certain federal law relating to.
Vaccinations; authorize exemptions for medical purposes.
Knife law preemption; prohibit local government entities from adopting restrictive policies relating to.
Appropriation; Mississippi River Parkway Commission.
In committee · 8
Science Curriculum; prohibit any state board or local school board prohibition on teacher providing instruction of evolution theory.
Vaccinations; allow exemption from requirement for school attendance based on religious or philosophical beliefs.
School board training; revise certain provisions to require to be conducted by the Secretary of State.
Weight tolerance; authorize for vehicles hauling animal feed to a farm.
The Patient Choice Act of 2016; enact.
Firearm Protection Act; enact.
Municipalities that implement sanctuary policies; provide certain penalty for.
"Nancy's Law"; create to provide remedies for investigation of vulnerable person abuse.