Bills in the 2014 Regular Session, House.
Mark Formby
Sponsored
Became law13
Sales tax and use tax; exempt finance charges from.
Psychology, Board of; extend repealer on.
MS Forestry Commission; extend repealer on authority to hire law enforcement officers to investigate woods arson.
Water wells; delete repealer on licensing exemption for wells constructed for irrigation on driller's farm.
Mississippi Major Economic Impact Act; extend reverter on authority of State Bond Commission to negotiate sale of bonds issued.
Wildlife enclosures; delete repealer on authority of the MS Commission on Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks to regulate.
Health Information Technology Act; reenact and extend repealer on.
Medical examiners and pathologists; delete repealer on fees for death investigations and autopsies.
Building Fund for the Arts; extend repealer on Arts Commission's authority to use bond proceeds for certain project costs.
Municipalities; delete repealer on authority to provide extra police protection to housing authorities.
Counties and municipalities; delete repealer on the provision that authorizes acceptance of credit cards.
Regional recycling cooperative grants; delete repealer on Commission on Environmental Quality's authority to set aside certain trust fund monies for.
Sale tax; exempt sales of aircraft used in oil or natural gas exploration or production.
Vetoed1
Corrections; delete repealer on intensive supervision program and electronic home detention.
Passed the House18
Highways; require MDOT install rumble strips along shoulders of newly constructed or resurfaced roadways.
Municipal council and board of aldermen meeting; authorize majority of quorum to transact business.
Earned time allowances; prohibit certain inmates from obtaining.
Violent crimes; require DNA testing for arrests.
Automobile insurance; delete repealer on provisions regarding required payees on insurer's check when paying a claim.
Economic Development Highway Act; delete repealer on authority of State Board Commission to negotiate sale of bonds issued under.
Agritourism; delete repealer on provisions providing limited liability to person engage in.
Conditions for state offenders to serve sentences in county jails; delete repealer on.
State Parole Board; delete repealer on.
Mississippi Uniform Anatomical Gift Act; reenact and delete repealer on.
State Department of Health and State Board of Health; reenact and extend date of repealer on.
State employee parking arrangement; delete repealer on authority of DFA to contract for at certain state office buildings.
Municipal special sales tax; extend repealer on authority of municipalities to impose if voters approve.
Commercial motor vehicles; delete repealer on Dept. of Revenue's authority to deny or revoke license of certain persons to operate.
Capital Improvements Preplanning Fund; delete repealer on.
Personal care homes; extend repealer on certain provisions relating to.
Prescription drug monitoring program; remove dispensers of veterinary drugs from and delete repealer.
Mississippi Home Corporation; extend reverter on authority to issue certain amount of bonds.
Out of committee14
Left-hand lane; allow driving only if passing, turning or in an emergency.
Death sentence; revise time for appeals.
Controlled substances; felony to bring into state, county or municipal facility.
Prison Overcrowding Emergency Powers Act; extend repealer on.
Medicaid; extend repealers on various provisions in Medicaid program.
Chronic Kidney Disease Task Force; reenact and extend date of repealer on.
Mississippi Public Defender Task Force; extend repealer on.
Surplus lines insurance; extend repealer on section prescribing nonadmitted policy fee for.
Emerging Crops Fund; extend date of reverter language on provisions authorizing issuance of general obligation bonds for.
Social workers and marriage and family therapists; reenact licensure laws and extend repealer on.
School districts; extend repealer on provision prescribing required actions regarding children with asthma.
MS Development Bank; extend repealers on authority of DEQ and State Department of Health to borrow from for loan programs.
E911 Wireless Emergency Telephone Service; extend repealer on.
Commercial motor vehicles; allow to by pass inspection station if driver of cannot completely exit highway to enter.
In committee38
Crimes; clarify that burglary is a violent crime.
Parole; require offender serve at least 1/3 of sentence and that commissioner recommend parole before offender is eligible for.
School property; authorize district superintendents to select certain employees to carry concealed weapons on campus.
Restitution; revise for crime victims.
Burglary; enhanced penalties for repeat offenders.
Adequate education program funds; withhold from districts failing to properly display flags or recite pledge of allegiance.
TANF recipients; require drug testing for certain who have been screened.
DUI; revise penalty for second or subsequent offense of driving with suspended license.
Expunction; revise.
Taxing entities; require to file annual report providing amount of tax revenues received.
Home schooled students; authorize participation in public school extracurricular activities.
Income tax; authorize an adjustment to gross income for portion of self-employment taxes paid by self-employed individuals.
Habitual offender; no plea bargaining for violent offenders.
Ad valorem tax; exempt business inventories from.
Real property owners; revise standard of care owed to guests and invitees.
Sales tax; create diversion to counties, divert additional revenue to Motor Vehicle Ad Valorem Tax Reduction Fund.
Sales tax; increase diversion to municipalities.
Sales tax; create diversion to counties.
Expunction; delete requirement that judge make specific findings for denying.
Judiciary; require judicial candidate to be a qualified elector of the district in which he runs.
Juvenile Detention and Alternatives Task Force; extend repealer on.
Mississippi Home Corporation; extend reverter on authority to issue certain amount of bonds.
Firearm Protection Act; enact.
Truth in sentencing; reinstate and revise.
Insurance; revise requirements of form for experience refund calculations.
Commercial driver's license; exempt church-owned vehicles from definition of commercial motor vehicle for purposes of.
Mississippi Health Care Freedom of Choice Act; create.
The "Prohibition Against Employer Intimidation Act"; create.
Prescription monitoring program; collected data not subject to disclosure in any civil proceedings.
Veterinarians; require to report dispensing of controlled substance drugs to Board of Veterinary Medicine.
Transportation; revise certain restrictions on design-build projects of the Mississippi Transportation Commission.
Earned time allowance; prohibit inmates convicted of murder or manslaughter from obtaining.
Water wells & septic tanks; if properly functioning, owners not required to connect property to central system.
IHL; provide shall not have authority over certain nonprofit charitable corporations for Batson Hospital.
Local and private bill; if proposing to extend tax for third time, require direct referendum.
Veterinary controlled substance drugs; remove from class of drugs to be monitored under the prescription monitoring program.
Mississippi Employment Fairness Act; create.
Counties and municipalities; prohibit from hindering employers' need to perform background.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 6
TANF recipients; require drug testing for certain who have been screened.
Weapons; clarify state preemption of local ordinances.
Teacher salaries; provide for increase.
Memorial highways; designate segment in Clay County as the "Representative David Gibbs Memorial Highway".
Abortion; prohibit performing at or after 20 weeks.
Law Enforcement Officers Death/Disability Benefits Trust Fund; expand coverage to include emergency management personnel & increase benefit.
Passed the House · 1
Gun buy-back programs; prohibit.
In committee · 2
MS Dept. of Transportation; terminate local HELP agreements and clarify capacity enhancement project authority.
Sales tax; exempt admission to and parking at certain livestock and agricultural facilities.