Bills in the 2014 Regular Session, House.
Tommy Taylor
Sponsored
Vetoed1
Regional correctional facilities; remove cap on number of state inmates for which DOC is authorized to contract for the housing of inmates.
Passed the House3
Uniform hospital claims form; Insurance Commissioner develop to use for all hospital services reimbursement claims.
Highway; designate U.S. Highway 61 as "Military Order of the Purple Heart Trail."
State-owned vehicles, MDOC Commissioner may request unmarked vehicle for use in official investigations.
Out of committee2
County regional correctional facilities, certain; require certain auditing of.
Courts; authorize to reduce probation period if offender participates in certain Department of Corrections programs.
In committee15
Voting machines; require all to be stored in one location that is chosen by election commissioners.
Death Benefits Trust Fund; include emergency management personnel, volunteer firefighters and fire chiefs.
Seat belt laws; revise penalties for violations of.
Capital murder; include killing of public utility workers and emergency responders.
Department of Corrections; revise contract amount that must be approved by Public Procurement Review Board.
Domestic violence; clarify determination of third or subsequent offenses.
Habitual offender law; revise.
Domestic violence; prohibit eligibility for parole when death results from.
Worker's Compensation insurance; require any increase in premium may not be more than 5% in a year.
CPR/AED; require to be included in physical education curriculum as a requirement for graduation.
Department of Public Safety; require to make regulations prohibiting replacement of manufacturer's headlights with halogen lights.
State inmate eligible for release, certain; require to receive certain notification regarding searches after inmate is released.
Certain personal service contracts for DOC; place under the purview of Personal Service Contract Review Board.
Parole supervision fees; increase.
Community work centers; require hearing before Department of Corrections may close.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 6
Weapons; clarify state preemption of local ordinances.
Crimes & sentencing; enact certain reforms.
Memorial highways; designate segment in Clay County as the "Representative David Gibbs Memorial Highway".
State Auditor; authorize to conduct audits of state-funded economic development projects.
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 · 10
Gun buy-back programs; prohibit.
Sirens; clarify which vehicles may be equipped with.
Municipal airport authorities; add to definition of "public entity" to authorize use of New Markets Tax Credit.
Sales tax; exempt certain sales of nonperishable foods, certain other sales and livestock admission and parking.
Fur-bearing animals; authorize commission on wildlife to revise the season on.
Personal Service Contract Review Board; revise composition of and remove exemption of certain contracts from board review.
Duplicate license; prohibit public bodies from requiring licensees to appear in person to receive.
Sheriffs and constables; revise fees charged for service of process.
Law enforcement officers; sidearm issued to officer killed in line of duty may be purchased by family.
City of Indianola; extend repealer on Indianola Tourism Commission.
Out of committee · 6
Corrections; require Inmate Fund to be special fund, require RFP's for canteen services and revise contract amount to be reviewed by Procurement Review Board.
Corrections; decrease maximum term of agricultural leases and provide certain advertisement for such leases.
Boards and commissions; revise various provisions and abolish certain inactive.
State or local government; prohibit from compelling a person to purchase certain health insurance products.
Mississippi Patient Protection Act of 2014; enact.
Commissioner of Dept. of Corrections; require to provide certain justification before closing community work centers and regional facilities.
In committee · 31
Gun buy-back programs; prohibit.
Gaming; 25% of proceeds of charitable bingo game must be expended in county where game was conducted.
Volunteer fire departments; increase amount insurance company required to pay for response to fire.
School Start Date Act; repeal to allow local school boards to determine the start of a new academic year as prescribed in Section 37-13-61.
Transportation; transfer law enforcement duties of MDOT to the Department of Public Safety.
Airport authorities; revise public notice for the sale of surplus property that is to be sold via Internet.
Radar; authorize use by sheriffs.
County purchases; person making purchase without requisition is personally liable, not purchase clerk.
Counties; authorize to use radar equipment, in its discretion.
County budget expenses; require state to fully fund state services being subsidized by counties.
County vehicles and road equipment; authorize boards of supervisors to allow use between county departments.
Appointments of certain county port commissioners by certain board of supervisors; require to run concurrent with appointing board.
School boards; elect all at presidential election for four-year terms.
School district superintendents; require all to be appointed beginning in 2016.
Dyslexia education; require instruction in for licensure as educator or administrator.
Counties and municipalities; authorize to sell or transfer equipment to other counties and municipalities.
MDOT law enforcement officers; authorize to enforce implied consent law.
Crimes; provide death penalty for certain child molestation.
Instruments of record; require to be in the English language.
State boundaries; clarify in statue.
Concealed weapons permit; exempt retired law enforcement officers.
Agricultural lease of prison lands; transfer management of from DFA to Secretary of State and reduce lease period.
Mississippi Physician Shield Act; create.
Medicaid; provide civil immunity to physician Medicaid providers for services provided to Medicaid recipients.
Pregnancy; provide crime of child abuse for women using illegal drugs during.
CON; certain health care services shall be subject to CON review.
Purchase requisition; provide that any person who makes a purchase without such shall be personally liable.
State Parole Board; authorize to place offenders under house arrest & to use conditional medical release.
Parental rights; establish fundamental right of parents to direct the upbringing, education and care of their children.
Elected and appointed officials; require drug test and negative result before taking office.
Appropriation; Department of Public Safety for Highway Patrol trooper training class.