Bills in the 2014 Regular Session, House.
Toby Barker
Sponsored
Became law3
University of Southern Mississippi property; authorize DFA to sell and convey certain parcel in Harrison County.
Small Business & Grocer Investment Act; create to encourage consumption of affordable healthy foods in underserved communities.
Forrest County; authorize contributions to various organizations.
Passed the House3
Junior colleges; repeal provisions requiring instructors to fill out affidavit of membership in organizations.
Starkville Consolidated School District; revise certain provisions of consolidation timetable.
Commission on the Future of Medicaid and Health Care in Mississippi; create.
Out of committee3
MS Speech-Language Therapy Scholarship; include children eligible for enrollment in kindergarten as eligible recipients of.
School district administrative consolidation; require in Holmes County.
USM property; authorize DFA to sell and convey or lease certain real property subject to certain conditions.
In committee13
Constitution; petition to amend by voter initiative may contain electronic or digital signatures.
MS Autism Therapy Scholarship; authorize to provide additional funds for students with autism spectrum disorder to receive therapy.
School attendance and absenteeism; standardize for compulsory attendance law and ADA calculations under MAEP.
Municipal notice; authorize to provide required on website and two other forms of social media.
"The Municipal Election Reform Act of 2014"; create.
Milk products; exempt owners of certain animals use for personal milk consumption and use from regulation.
Circuit court; provide additional judge for 12th Circuit Court District.
Process servers; exempt from trespass prosecution while performing job.
Micro Brewery Modernization Act of 2014; create.
Recreation Safety Act; enact.
Nurse Practice Law; revise various provisions of.
Diabetes & obesity; require State Dept. of Health to develop annual action plans for the control and prevention of in the state.
City of Hattiesburg; extend repealer on Hattiesburg Tourism Commission and hotel/motel tax.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 21
Mississippi Public Records Act of 1983; exempt certain academic records from.
State and School Employees Health Insurance Management Board; shall consider expansion of coverage for treatment of autism spectrum disorders.
Marriage & family therapists & social workers; delete repealer on licensure laws and revise definition of marriage & family therapy.
Executive Committee; prohibit certain persons from serving on municipal, county and state.
Memorial highways; designate segment in Clay County as the "Representative David Gibbs Memorial Highway".
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; Education, Department of.
Appropriation; Educational Television, Authority for.
Appropriation; Library Commission.
Appropriation; Archives and History, Department of.
Appropriation; Arts Commission.
Appropriation; Medicaid, Division of.
Appropriation; Insurance, Department of.
Appropriation; Fire Academy.
Appropriation; Health, Department of.
Appropriation; Human Services, Department of.
Passed the House · 5
Sales tax; exempt certain sales of nonperishable foods, certain other sales and livestock admission and parking.
Gale Stauffer, Jr. and Joseph Maher Law Enforcement Act of 2014; create.
Appropriation; Transportation, Department of.
Bonds; authorize issuance to provide funds for the Mississippi Watershed repair and Rehabilitation Cost-Share Program.
Grocery Store Development Loan Program Act; issue bonds to help construct new grocery stores in underserved areas.
In committee · 8
Anatomical Gift Act; Revised Mississippi Uniform; reenact and delete repealer on.
Dyslexia education; require instruction in for licensure as educator or administrator.
Mississippi Public Utility Rate Mitigation and Reduction Act; repeal.
DHS; seek federal waivers to limit SNAP benefit purchases of low nutrition food and beverages.
Administrative procedures act; revise to allow small business to have streamlined adjudicatory proceeding.
Law Enforcement Officers and Fire Fighters Death Benefits Fund; increase benefit and funding for.
Income tax; allow credit to grocers for part of cost of purchasing locally grown or produced agricultural products.
City of Vicksburg; authorize to contribute funds and in-kind maintenance services to Beulah Cemetery.