Bills in the 2011 Regular Session, House.
Cecil Brown
Sponsored
Became law11
Home schooled students; to be tested for grade assignment prior to transferring into public school district.
Parental choice for assignment of twins or other multiples to class; delete repealer.
Student participating in GED programs; clarify funding for.
School teacher and administrator licensure; provide penalties for sexual involvement of school employees with students.
State assessments; increase amount for Vulnerable Persons Fund.
Exceptional children requiring inpatient care; clarify eligibility to receive both state and federal funding.
Early college high schools; direct certain state education leaders to study and recommend establishment of pilot program for.
Joint Education and Mental Health Study Committee; create to study services provided to children with mental disorders.
Appropriation; Education, Department of.
Appropriation; Educational Television, Authority for.
Appropriation; Library Commission.
Vetoed1
Reading Sufficiency Program of Instruction; repeal specific components.
Passed the House8
State Longitudinal Data System; develop to establish a multiagency database.
School districts serving students placed in youth detention centers; require State Board of Education to issue policy on financial reimbursement to.
School textbooks; clarify procedure for executing and distributing publishing contracts.
Schools At-Risk; revise certain procedures and sanctions imposed under school district conservatorship law.
Rural Physicians Recruitment and Retention Incentive Grant Program Act; create.
Exceptional children in inpatient facilities; shall be eligible for state financial assistance for full term of placement.
State agency information technology services; authorize MDITS to consolidate.
Child support; allow money seized for violations of the Uniform Controlled Substances Law to pay.
Out of committee1
School district employees; authorize voluntary dues deductions for membership in professional organizations.
In committee27
Elections for state officers; change day of week to Saturday.
Homestead exemption; provide for certain owners of manufactured homes or mobile homes.
Budget; prohibit certain actions by state agencies during current and next fiscal years.
Income tax; authorize a deduction for contributions to qualified tuition programs.
Ad valorem tax; bring forward certain sections of law regarding assessment of property for purposes of.
School of the Arts; close at Brookhaven campus and relocate on campus of MUW.
School cafeteria workers; provide state funded health insurance on a phased-in basis.
Internal audit law; remove condition for specific appropriations to fund, and delay implementation date.
Educator sexual misconduct; revise reporting requirements and criminal penalty for such with a student.
Limited liability companies; revise fees.
Crimes; revise crime of animal cruelty and exempt certain activities from constituting the crime.
Crimes; revise prohibition against conducting certain animal fights.
Department of Employment Security; reenact and amend provisions regarding.
Task force to study and report on the funding and implementation of universal pre-kindergarten programs; create.
Assistant teachers; include under the Education Employment Procedures Law.
School nurses; require school districts to grant same leave allowances as allowed teachers.
Income tax refund checkoff; authorize for Mississippi Council for Economic Education.
School district conservator or financial advisor; remove from requirements of Personal Service Contract Review Board.
Compulsory school attendance law; delete authority to disenroll kindergarten student and prohibit automatic failure for absenteeism.
Health Care Practitioner Transparency Act; create.
State Superintendent of Education; State Board of Education shall set salary of.
Minority Education Task Force; establish.
Dating violence; require school districts to adopt policy and educate students on.
State Bond Commission; powers in connection with issuance of state bonds are limited to certain administrative functions.
Office of Shared Services; establish in DFA for central business services and procurement for public school districts.
Public improvement districts; revise certain provisions regarding.
Income tax; revise provisions regarding certain business deductions.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 6
Sex-related education; require local school boards to adopt a policy on and implement.
City of Jackson; extend repeal date on Jackson Convention and Visitors Bureau.
Appropriation; Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks, Department of.
Appropriation; Environmental Quality, Department of.
Appropriation; Medicaid, Division of.
Appropriation; Health, Department of.
Passed the House · 4
Personal care homes; require licensure and regulation if they provide living arrangements for one or more persons.
U.S. Highway 78; designate certain segment of in Benton and Marshall Counties as "William 'Bill' Minor Memorial Highway".
Mississippi High School Activities Association; provide legislative oversight for and appoint advisors.
City of Jackson; authorize councilmen to maintain individual offices within City Hall.
In committee · 6
Rural Fire Truck Acquisition Assistance Program; authorize additional round.
Crimes against animals; enact "Mississippi Dog and Cat Pet Protection Law of 2011".
Sex education; require school districts to implement Personal Responsibility curriculum.
State highway system; add certain segment of roadway in the City of Jackson, Mississippi.
Bonds; authorize issuance to provide funds to assist City of Jackson in making road and street improvements.
Bonds; authorize issuance for improvements to Mississippi Museum of Natural Science and certain projects in the City of Corinth.