Bills in the 2008 Regular Session, House.
Linda F. Coleman
Sponsored
Became law9
County medical examiner; increase salary and certain fees paid to.
Wireless Communication Services; exempt University of Mississippi Medical Center from.
Elected officials; delete date of repeal for law that provides salaries of certain.
Appropriation; Attorney General - support.
Appropriation; District Attorneys and staff.
Appropriation; Supreme Court Services.
Appropriation; Office of Capital Defense Counsel.
Appropriation; Office of Capital Post-Conviction Counsel.
Appropriation; Office of Indigent Appeals.
Passed the House4
Board of Supervisors; reduce time for calling special meetings.
Cleaning private property; revise notice requirements by municipal governing authorities to owner.
Cleaning private property; revise notice requirements by board of supervisors to owners.
Bolivar County; authorize contribution to the Bolivar County Community Action Agency, Inc.
Out of committee1
Miss Breland's Law; enhance penalty for certain crimes of theft and forgery.
In committee5
District Attorneys; increase salaries.
County sheriffs; increase salaries of.
Tax assessors and collectors; increase salaries.
Tax collectors; create education and certification program.
First-time nonviolent offenders; remove "first-time" requirement in order to make nonviolent offenders eligible for parole.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 7
Appropriation; State Department of Education - General Programs, Education Reform Act and Vocational Education.
Catfish Marketing Law; require consumer notice and labeling of country of origin on all foreign and imported catfish.
U.S. Highway 90; designate portion in City of Pass Christian as "James C. Simpson, Sr., Memorial Highway."
U.S. Highways; designate Highway 61 as "Highway 61, the Blues Highway," designate certain rest area along Highway 49.
Appropriation; Mississippi Authority for Educational Television.
Appropriation; Library Commission.
Appropriation; Department of Environmental Quality.
Passed the House · 6
Ad valorem tax; remove provisions that prescribe the manner for determining true value of affordable rental housing.
Public transit task force; create and prescribe duties.
Cervical Cancer Elimination Task Force; create.
Suffrage; provide for immediate restoration upon completion of sentence and other conditions.
Sickle Cell Disease; create task force to study growing incidence and available treatment options.
Crimes; revise certain offenses regarding levees.
Out of committee · 4
Real estate transactions; require disclosure if property used as methamphetamine lab.
Mortgage loans; illegal to close without a law license.
Drug courts; establish in all circuit court districts.
Alcoholic beverages and cigarettes; increase tax and deposit proceeds in special fund for trauma care/Medicaid.
In committee · 8
2008 First Extraordinary Session · Salaries of judges and district attorneys; increase.
2008 First Extraordinary Session · Medicaid; increase taxes on alcoholic beverages and cigarettes to provide additional funds for.
Houses; require sellers to disclose if methamphetamine lab was located there.
Deeds of trust; substitute trustee in foreclosure proceeding on must be Mississippi resident.
Tinted motor vehicle windows; exempt legislators from law restricting.
Child support; require forgiveness or arrears obligation when DNA disproves paternity.
Vaccinations; exempt certain children with autism from vaccination requirement to attend school.
Taxation; increase various taxes to fund state government.