Bills in the 2011 Regular Session, House.
Esther Harrison
Sponsored
Became law1
Public university property; authorize DFA to donate certain property under possession and control of MUW to City of Columbus.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 3
Sex-related education; require local school boards to adopt a policy on and implement.
City of Columbus and Lowndes County; establish Columbus-Lowndes Convention and Visitors Bureau.
City of Columbus; authorize to allow the Columbus Light and Water Department to offer certain assistance to certain consumers.
Passed the House · 7
Personal care homes; require licensure and regulation if they provide living arrangements for one or more persons.
Healthcare Coordinating Council; require to make a report on specific health goals for the state.
Children's Resource Commission; create to coordinate and streamline the state's efforts to provide services to children.
Mississippi Senior Cadets Program; establish in State Department of Education.
Motivating Parents and Children (M.P.A.C.) pilot program; establish within the State Department of Education.
TANF and Medicaid; require teenage recipients of to participate in programs about birth control, abstinence and parenting.
U.S. Highway 78; designate certain segment of in Benton and Marshall Counties as "William 'Bill' Minor Memorial Highway".
Out of committee · 1
Health and human services agencies; require to prepare videos with certain information for benefit recipients and others.
In committee · 37
Mississippi Accountability and Transparency Act; establish additional requirements for DFA's website on state spending.
Gaming; create state lottery to fund higher education after statewide election on issue.
Gaming; create state lottery to fund higher education.
Teacher scholarship; authorize for college graduates for costs of courses required for teacher licensure.
Random drug tests; require of all public school students in Grades 6 through 12.
Appropriation; Health Department to provide funding to federally qualified health centers.
Mississippi Save Our Children Act; create to require programs in certain school districts.
Social workers; provide in schools having high incidences of crime via video conferencing means.
School nutrition; require school districts to serve low-fat meals and snacks to students diagnosed as overweight.
School curriculum; require students to receive additional instruction in healthy living.
Children's services and programs; require all state agencies to provide information relating to such in a list to the Legislature.
"Dream Makers Program"; create as an after-school program for students in Grades 7 and 8.
"Health Careers Academy"; create for students in Grades 9 through 12.
Middle schools; require academic plans for students, peer mentoring and other programs.
Online learning programs; improve oversight and quality assurance of in public schools.
Dropout Prevention and Student Re-engagement Act; create.
Early Commitment to College Program; authorize for underperforming school districts.
College and Career Readiness Planning Program; create.
Vision 2020: An Education Blueprint for Two Thousand Twenty; create.
Mathematics and science instruction; enhance through new programs in middle schools.
Hope Program; establish and develop system to re-enroll high school dropouts in programs leading to a high school diploma.
Pre-kindergarten; require Department of Education to create the "ABC Program" to provide instruction via Internet.
Body mass index (BMI); require schools to collect for certain students and provide to parents with an explanation.
Health Disparities Council; create.
Appropriation; Health Department for additional funds for Office of Health Disparity Elimination.
Elementary school counselors; allocate funds under the Mississippi Adequate Education Program for.
Task force to address the disparity of African-American males in the judicial system; create.
School districts; require policies if accredited at the three lowest levels and alternate curriculum.
Comprehensive School Health Education Program; include additional components in and require school nurse to teach.
Mississippi Comprehensive Communities of Color Teen Pregnancy Prevention Act; create.
Comprehensive sex education; require to be taught in Grades K through 12.
Medicaid; require participation in medical home concept and require obese persons to participate in online program on obesity.
Health screening; require annually for Medicaid, CHIP and State Health Plan recipients and participants.
Medicaid; children under age 18 in foster care are eligible for.
Public high schools; revise graduation requirements and authorize pre-apprentice programs.
Volunteer and Parents Incentive Program Act; create.
Mississippi High School Dropout Prevention Act of 2011; create.