Bills in the 2012 Regular Session, House.
Bobby B. Howell
Sponsored
Became law4
Mississippi Veterans Memorial Cemetery; authorize additional cemeteries.
State assessments; provide for several funds, and reduce certain assessments.
Medicaid; develop and operate a data match system to verify assets of applicants and recipients.
Appropriation; Medicaid, Division of.
In committee11
Income tax, jobs credit; aggregate jobs created by qualifying businesses in entertainment dist. for eligibility purposes.
Income tax; authorize a credit for portion of costs paid by a business enterprise to expand and relocate employees to this state.
Income tax; authorize a credit for portion of costs paid by a company in relocating national or regional headquarters to this state.
Open primary elections; authorize.
Pharmacy benefit managers; require to inform plan sponsors of any rebates received from drug manufacturers.
College Private Research Incentive Act; create.
Capital cases; allow change of venue under certain circumstances if requested by prosecutor.
Cosmetology Board; reconstitute and increase membership of.
Medicaid; make various amendments to Medicaid laws.
Appropriation; University of Mississippi Medical Center Medicaid reimbursements; additional for FY 2012.
Bonds; authorize issuance to provide funds for improvements at state parks.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 16
Child Protection Act and Child Rape Protection Act; enact.
U.S. Highway 78; designate certain segment of in Benton and Marshall Counties as "William R. 'Bill' Minor Memorial Highway."
Children's Health Insurance Program; transfer administration of to Division of Medicaid.
Memorial interchange; designate for John Wayne Haddock in Grenada County.
DUI; create child endangerment provision.
Gun permits; revise reciprocity.
Student grades; prohibit certain school administrators and district employees from influencing a change in.
MS Dyslexia Therapy Scholarship for Students with Dyslexia Program; create to provide dyslexic students with school choice.
Mississippi Dyslexia Education Scholarship Program; create.
Appropriation; Health, Department of.
Appropriation; Human Services, Department of.
Appropriation; Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks, Department of.
Appropriation; Environmental Quality, Department of.
Appropriation; Public Service Commission.
Appropriation; Public Utilities Staff.
Appropriation; Rehabilitation Services, Department of.
Passed the House · 4
Gun buy-back programs; prohibit.
Board of Pharmacy; authorize DFA to purchase and sell property on behalf of for new facility.
Sales tax; reduce rate imposed on retail sales of boats, motorcycles and towable campers.
Income and franchise tax; allow refundable credit for costs of purchasing and installing a solar electric energy system.
Out of committee · 2
Public Safety Verification and Enforcement Act; create.
Teacher Classroom and Disciplinary Control Act; create.
In committee · 11
Courts; prohibit applying foreign law.
Justice court judge; include in "Non-partisan Judicial Election Act."
Dialysis treatment; require facilities providing to maintain backup power supply for dialysis machines.
State parole board; require to submit report to Governor regarding petition for pardon by person convicted of felony crime.
Traffic safety violator course; provide that it may be an Internet course.
Mississippi Student Religious Liberties Act of 2012; create.
Katie's Law; require DNA testing for all felony arrests.
School vouchers; authorize State Department of Education to issue under the MS School Choice Scholarship Program.
Mississippi judicial system; prohibit from using international or Sharia law.
Mississippi Public Charter Schools Act of 2012; enact to establish new process for creating.
MS Health Care Industry Zone Act; create and provide certain tax incentives for qualified businesses located in.