Bills in the 2013 Regular Session, House.
Rita Martinson
Sponsored
Became law2
Municipal, county and state executive committees; prohibit those who violate the public trust from serving on.
Alcoholic beverages; allow manufacturer with distillery in state to provide samples subject to certain conditions.
Passed the House11
Bonds; authorize issuance to provide funds for improvements to the Mississippi Craft Center.
Municipal clerks and managers; clarify how such shall be paid and revise discretionary pay.
Mississippi Bicentennial Celebration Commission; revise composition of.
Tourism Project Sales Tax Incentive Fund; increase period of time that MDA may make payments from, revise certain definitions.
Mississippi Motion Picture Incentive Act; increase the amount of rebates authorized under.
Tourism; create the MS Tourism Advisory Board and the Tourism Advertising and Marketing Fund; create a pilot program to fund.
Reading Proficiency Program; establish in public schools to achieve grade level reading by end of 3rd grade.
Hotel renovation projects sales tax incentive; authorize for certain projects.
Caylee's law; enact.
Scenic byways; designate certain scenic byways in Madison County.
Municipalities; clarify the authority to hire full-time and part-time attorney as a municipal employee.
In committee18
State Superintendent of Public Education; require to be appointed by the Governor.
Legislators' salaries; include a date of repeal for January 1, 2016.
Alcoholic beverages; authorize permits that allow sampling or tasting events at package retail stores.
Radar; authorize sheriff to use in counties over 70,000 and impose additional state assessment for violation when used.
Tourism Project Sales Tax Incentive Fund; increase maximum period of time that MDA may make incentive payments from.
"MS Working Family Support Act"; enact to provide increased child care service opportunities for certain working families.
City of Ridgeland; authorize the city to levy an additional sales tax for certain purposes.
Women's Health Defense Act of 2013; create.
Tourism project sales tax incentive program; revise definition of "tourism project" for purposes of.
Historic renovations; require MDAH oversight and administration of public funds allocated for and provide regulation of.
Radar; authorize patrol officers of Pearl River Valley Water Supply District to use.
Katie's Law; require DNA testing for all felony arrests.
Marijuana; conform possession, possession in a motor vehicle and possession of paraphernalia.
Professions; provide for regulation of hotels and innkeepers.
Counties; authorize board of supervisors to employ attorney as full-time county employee.
County and state executive committees; prohibit those who violate the public trust from serving on.
Bonds; authorize the issuance of general obligation bonds to assist Ridgeland in the widening of Lake Harbour Road.
Madison County; increase the amount of bonds that may be issued for Madison County Economic Development Authority.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 5
Mississippi Highway 15; designate certain bridge in Chickasaw County as the "Representative William E. 'Billy' Bowles Memorial Bridge".
Dyslexia Education Scholarship Program; increase maximum number of students eligible to 20.
Human Trafficking; revise law.
Child support; authorize DHS to contract with vendors to improve program.
Cities and counties; authorize to donate to chapters of YMCA within the city or county.
Passed the House · 7
Mississippi Main Street Investment Act; create.
Post-conviction relief; revise time limitation.
Eligibility of children in certain licensed residential facilities to receive federal education funds; provide.
Private investigators; require to show proof of licensure before getting driver's license.
Concealed firearms on school premises; require local school board to adopt policy authorizing certain school employees to carry.
Mississippi Tort Claims Act; revise to include volunteer fire departments when performing governmental activities.
Schoolchildren's Religious Liberties Act; create.
Out of committee · 2
Parental rights; establish fundamental right of parents to direct the upbringing, education and care of their children.
Firearm Protection Act; enact.
In committee · 17
Driver's license suspension; revise course requirements for alternative sentencing of minor drivers.
School superintendents; revise minimum qualifications for elected and appointed.
Human Trafficking; revise.
Rural fire Truck Acquisition Assistance Program; authorize an additional round for counties and municipalities.
Appropriation; Bridge Replacement and Rehabilitation Fund for funding bridge program.
Instruments of record; require to be in the English language.
Appropriation; Rural Fire Truck Fund for additional round of trucks under Acquisition Assistance Program.
Appropriation; IHL for funding Mississippi Dyslexia Education Scholarship Program.
Firearms; declare that are not subject to federal law or regulation if manufactured and contained within Mississippi.
Mississippi Health Care Freedom of Choice Act; create.
Implied Consent Law; provide increased penalties for 4th and 5th offenses.
Mississippi Food Freedom Act; enact to provide greater autonomy to private producers of agricultural or farm products.
Public funds; prohibit use of to pay cost of drugs used for treatment of sexual or erectile dysfunction.
Gun buy-back programs; prohibit.
Extracurricular and athletic activities; require students to maintain a 2.0 weekly grade point average for participation.
State institutions; patients admitted for less than three months not required to pay social security disability benefits to the institution.
Mississippi judicial system; prohibit from using international or Sharia law.