Bills in the 2009 Regular Session, House.
Tyrone Ellis
Sponsored
Became law4
Tampering with electric, gas or water meters; increase criminal penalty.
Excavations near underground utility facilities; require facilities to be installed with electronic locating method.
Oktibbeha County; authorize contribution to local Boys and Girls Club.
Lowndes County; authorize to contribute to Golden Triangle Contact Teleministry, Inc.
Passed the House5
Public Service Commission; authorize to require public utilities to pay expenses of audits under certain circumstances.
Public Service Commission; may transfer portion of certificated area to adjacent utility upon certain findings.
Public utilities; revise supervision of public utilities staff.
The Mississippi 911 State Emergency Telephone Service Study Committee; create.
Mississippi Coordinating Council for Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems; revise membership.
Out of committee1
Utility and rural water bills; provide for collection of certain delinquent.
In committee5
Public utilities regulation; bring forward sections related to responsibilities of.
Bonds; increase amount authorized to be issued for construction and operation of a statewide wireless communications system.
Tobacco; revise excise tax on certain.
Suffrage; restore to Robert Henley of Noxubee County.
Lowndes County; allow to contribute funds to United Way of Lowndes County.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 3
U.S. Highway 90; designate certain highway bridge thereon as "Leo W. Seal, Jr., Memorial Bridge."
Mental health system; create joint legislative study committee to study and make report on.
Bonds; issue for certain passenger and freight rail service infrastructure and other rail projects.
Vetoed · 1
Trademark laws; revise.
Passed the House · 3
Health Disparities Council; create.
Columbia Training School property; authorize lease for ICFMR facility and for public purposes.
Clayton P. Henderson; name Marks Vegetable Processing Facility operated by Alcorn State University after.
In committee · 11
Appropriation; IHL for Special Task Force for Revitalization of the Mississippi Delta Region.
Mississippi Delta Revitalization Act of 2006; extend date of repealer on.
Health insurance; require health insurance policies and State Health Plan to cover autism spectrum disorders.
Public school students; require drug testing of all sixth through twelfth graders.
Body mass index (BMI); require schools to collect for certain students and provide to parents with an explanation.
Appropriation; Health Department to provide funding to federally qualified health centers.
School curriculum; authorize financial literacy curriculum in high schools.
Graduate degree teacher incentive loans; establish for teachers agreeing to teach in public schools or IHLs.
Drug court; court having jurisdiction has final determination about participation in.
Unemployment benefits; remove one-week waiting period.
Bonds; authorize issuance of bonds for improvements to Jackson Zoo.