Bills in the 2012 Regular Session, House.
Mark Formby
Sponsored
Became law14
Livestock facilities; extend repealer on authority of certain organizations to hold shows for no charge.
Psychologists; delete repealers on the education and supervised experience requirements for licensure.
MS Limited Liability Company Act; extend repealer on fees.
Physical therapists; delete repealers on certain provisions relating to licensing and discipline of.
Medicaid; extend repealers on various provisions in Medicaid program.
Community Service Revolving Fund; extend repealer on.
State employees health insurance plan; extend repealer on requirement that state pay certain amounts toward cost of.
School Start Date Act of 2012; enact to restrict the start of a new academic year.
Tony Gobar Individualized Assessment and Comprehensive Community Intervention Initiative Program; remove repealer on.
Forest acreage tax; delete repeal date on requirement that boards of supervisors levy.
Ad valorem tax; delete repeal date on authority of local governing authorities to grant exemption for motor vehicles of certain active duty military personnel.
Wildlife enclosures; extend repealer on Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks authority to regulate.
Division of Community Services within Department of Youth Services; extend repealer on.
School maintenance fund; extend repealer on requirement that districts with low ending balance file budget cuts plan.
Passed the House17
Income tax; extend repealer on tax credit for certain charges at airports used for export/import of cargo.
Income tax; extend repealer on tax credit for certain charges for using certain port facilities.
School districts; extend repealer on authority to furlough certain employees when serious financial condition exists.
Dental insurance; delete repealer on prohibition against certain providers in contracts b/w healthcare entities & dentists.
Religious Viewpoints Antidiscrimination Act/Schoolchildren's Religious Liberties Act; create.
Income tax; delete repeal date on tax credit for certain employers sponsoring skills training for employees.
Anatomical Gift Act, Revised Mississippi Uniform; delete repealer on.
Income tax; delete repealer on tax credit for certain new jobs in upholstered household furniture manufacturing industry.
Crimes; delete repeal date on prohibition against conducting fights between canines and hogs.
School board elections; authorize absentee voting for actively deployed members of United States Armed Forces.
State offenders serving sentences in county jails; extend repealer on.
Prison Overcrowding Emergency Powers Act; extend repealer on.
MS Boll Weevil Management Act; extend repealer on provision requiring certain audits to be provided by November 15.
Family protection specialists and workers; extend repealers on duty of DHS to establish employment standards for.
Obesity; extend repealer on program providing bariatric surgery under state employees health plan.
Joint Legislative Committee on Oral/Auditory Programs; extend repealer on.
Task force to study status of failing schools and school districts; extend repealer on.
Out of committee7
Public Service Commission; extend repealer on.
Highway Safety Patrol; extend repealer on revised minimum qualification of members of.
Nursing home administrators; extend repealer on licensure requirements for.
Workers' Compensation Law; revise.
Concealed weapons; revise prohibition against carrying in church or other place of worship.
Intensive supervision program for certain offenders; extend repealer on.
State Parole Board; extend repealer on.
In committee45
School year; prohibit public schools from opening before Labor Day.
Earned time allowances; prohibit certain inmates from obtaining.
Sales tax and use tax; exempt finance charges from.
Sales tax, prepayment; credit sales shall not be included in estimated June liability if payment not received before June 20.
Income tax; authorize an adjustment to gross income for portion of self-employment taxes paid by self-employed individuals.
Sales tax, liability; limit liability if previous Department of Revenue audits determined taxpayer to be in compliance with law.
Home schooled students; authorize participation in public school extracurricular activities.
Adequate Education Program funds; withhold from districts failing to properly display flags or recite pledge of allegiance.
Ad valorem tax; exempt business inventories from.
Sales tax; increase diversion to municipalities.
Department of Human Services; extend date of repealer on.
Employment Security Law; exclude services performed by individuals in delivery of newspapers regardless of age.
Workers' compensation; incarcerated individuals may not collect benefits.
Workers' compensation; provide employer the right to require autopsy in death cases.
Workers' Compensation Law; define purpose to be impartially construed.
Workers' compensation; increase benefits for disfigurement, vocational rehab and death, allow employer to request autopsy.
Highway median; require MDOT to develop median crossing safety project.
Highways; require MDOT install rumble strips along shoulders of newly constructed or resurfaced roadways.
Pistol or revolver; authorize to carry unless specifically prohibited by law.
Habitual offender; no plea bargaining for violent offenders.
Workers' compensation; clarify the exclusiveness of liability and provide penalties for bad faith claims.
Workers' compensation; revise criteria for drug and alcohol testing, increase benefits for disfigurement, vocational rehab and death.
Workers' compensation; provide that results of drug and alcohol test, employer-administered or otherwise, are admissible.
Workers' Compensation Law; define purpose to be impartially construed.
Real property owners; revise standard of care owed to guests and invitees.
Uninsured motorist coverage; revise number of vehicles necessary to purchase nonstacking coverage.
Free port warehouse law; clarify that manufacturers are eligible for ad valorem tax exemption.
Ad valorem tax, inventory; authorize a tax credit against.
State Parole Board; require Governor to appoint an executive director for.
Controlled substances; felony to bring into state, county or municipal facility.
Parole; require offender serve at least 1/3 of sentence and that commissioner recommend parole before offender is eligible for.
Fishing license; delete repeal date on law authorizing 3-day group pier fishing license.
Regional economic development alliances; extend authority to exercise quick-take eminent domain.
Boards and commissions; consolidate and/or reconstitute membership of certain.
State funds; state agency or political subdivision not in compliance with state law will not receive.
Nepotism; prohibit school districts from employing immediate family of appointed board members.
Comprehensive Hurricane Damage Mitigation Program; extend repealer on.
Property and Casualty Actuarial Opinion Act; extend repealer on.
Milk Producers Transportation Cost Loan Fund; extend repealer on.
Post conviction relief; limit use of DNA or biological evidence for petitioner convicted of sexual assault.
Commitments to Oakley Training School; clarify that a youth may be committed for any felony.
Judiciary; require judicial candidate to be qualified elector of district in which he runs for judgeship.
Expunction; delete requirement that judge make specific findings for denying.
Highway contracts; revise number of projects for which design-build method of contracting may be used per fiscal year.
Taxing entities; require to file annual report providing amount of tax revenues received.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 6
Child Protection Act and Child Rape Protection Act; enact.
Sunshine Act; create for agencies hiring attorneys.
Sales tax; exempt sales of utilities to churches.
DUI; create child endangerment provision.
Gun permits; revise reciprocity.
Student grades; prohibit certain school administrators and district employees from influencing a change in.
Passed the House · 7
Illegal immigration; strengthen enforcement provisions to prevent.
Income tax; increase credit for ad valorem tax paid on inventory.
Gun buy-back programs; prohibit.
Gulf Coast Region Utility Act; revise various provisions of.
Vessel pilots; limit and regulate liability of.
Sales tax; exempt retail sales of school supplies during the last weekend in July.
Income and franchise tax; allow refundable credit for costs of purchasing and installing a solar electric energy system.
Out of committee · 3
Sunshine Act; create for agencies hiring attorneys.
Public Safety Verification and Enforcement Act; create.
Teacher Classroom and Disciplinary Control Act; create.
In committee · 12
Armed robbery; provide for minimum prison sentence of 10 years.
Extracurricular and athletic activities; require students to maintain a 2.0 weekly grade point average for participation.
School vouchers; authorize State Department of Education to issue under the MS School Choice Scholarship Program.
Tax levy to support school districts; authorize levying authority to veto school board request for increase up to seven percent.
Mississippi judicial system; prohibit from using international or Sharia law.
Instruments of record; require to be in the English language.
State institutions; patients admitted for less than three months not required to pay social security disability benefits to the institution.
Mississippi Public Charter Schools Act of 2012; enact to establish new process for creating.
Public assistance benefits; combined incomes of all persons in same household used to determine eligibility for.
MS Health Care Industry Zone Act; create and provide certain tax incentives for qualified businesses located in.
Appropriation; Commission on the Status of Women.
Income tax; authorize a deduction for certain retrofitting or upgrades to homes in Coastal Area of Mississippi.