Bills in the 2013 Regular Session, House.
Toby Barker
Sponsored
Became law6
Compact for education; repeal.
Mississippi Interagency Council on Homelessness; create.
School district consolidation; require in certain county.
Interagency Farm to School Council; establish.
MS Speech-Language Therapy Scholarship for Students with Speech-Language Impairments; create to provide students with school choice.
Forrest County; authorize contributions to various organizations.
Passed the House5
USM; authorize Department of Finance & Administration to sell certain real property located in Jackson County, MS.
Early Care & Education Voucher Program Fund; create in State Treasury and fund from General Fund ending cash balance.
Pre-kindergarten programs; require State Dept. of Education to implement on phased-in basis beginning with the 2013-2014 school year.
Healthy Food Retail Act; create to encourage consumption of affordable healthy foods in underserved communities.
Telemedicine services; health insurance plans must provide coverage for to same extent as for in-person services.
Out of committee1
Election commissioners; grant discretionary authority to boards of supervisors to increase per diem and reimburse mileage.
In committee8
Cottage food operations; exempt certain from health department regulations.
Circuit court; provide additional judge for 12th Circuit Court District.
Sixteen section lands; exclude from tax sales and delete boards of supervisors' duty to approve leases.
Rural hospitals; consolidations and mergers of not subject to antitrust laws.
Nurse practice law; revise various provisions of.
Beer; revise certain provisions regarding brewpubs.
Constitution; petition to amend by voter initiative may contain electronic or digital signatures.
Universities and colleges; require annual report to Legislature regarding remedial education.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 17
Mississippi Highway 15; designate certain bridge in Chickasaw County as the "Representative William E. 'Billy' Bowles Memorial Bridge".
Appropriation; Legislative expenses.
Appropriation; Attorney General.
Appropriation; Supreme Court, Court of Appeals and trial judges services.
Appropriation; District attorneys and staff.
Appropriation; Capital Post-Conviction Counsel, Office of.
Appropriation; State Public Defender, Office of.
Appropriation; Transportation, Department of.
Appropriation; Education, Department of.
Appropriation; Educational Television, Authority for.
Appropriation; Library Commission.
Appropriation; Archives and History, Department of.
Appropriation; Arts Commission.
Appropriation; Insurance, Department of.
Appropriation; Fire Academy.
Appropriation; Health, Department of.
Appropriation; Human Services, Department of.
Passed the House · 2
Appropriation: State Government Agencies Budget Contingency Fund and Capital Expense Fund; additional 2013.
Appropriation; Medicaid, Division of.