Bills in the 2014 Regular Session, House.
Rita Martinson
Sponsored
Became law4
Alcoholic beverages; authorize package retailers to sample product and hold tasting/sampling events.
Tourism; create study committee on entertainment industry investment.
Executive Committee; prohibit certain persons from serving on municipal, county and state.
Municipalities; authorize to clean "abandoned" buildings and remove cost limitation for removal of hazardous waste.
Passed the House2
State assessments; impose assessment for violations of certain state litter laws.
Motion picture productions; create loan guaranty program as incentive for productions in state.
Out of committee1
Tourism project sales tax incentive program; extend authority of MDA to approve participants in.
In committee13
Courts; create circuit court district for Madison County.
State Superintendent of Education; provide for appointment by Governor.
Katie's Law; require DNA testing for all felony arrests.
DNA testing; create the Mississippi DNA Database Act.
School buses; mandate use of cameras on exterior and interior of for safety purposes.
Mississippi Motor Vehicle Safety Inspection Law; revise various provisions regarding.
Voter Assistance; revise how an elector may receive and who can provide such to an elector.
Medicaid; authorize coverage for home/therapeutic leave days for supervised living program.
Sales tax; exempt sales of tangible personal property and services to the Mississippi Children's Museum.
Citizens for Economic Development Act; create.
Bonds; authorize issuance to provide funds for improvements at the Mississippi Craft Center.
Sales tax; delete provision that excludes ornamental plants from agricultural exemption.
City of Madison; establish alternate procedure for municipal code enforcement.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 5
Driver's license; authorize reciprocal agreement with Republic of China (Taiwan).
Memorial highways; designate segment in Clay County as the "Representative David Gibbs Memorial Highway".
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.
North Central Mississippi Regional Railroad Authority; authorize to enter into lease purchase agreement and/or transfer assets.
Passed the House · 7
Gun buy-back programs; prohibit.
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.
Public colleges and universities; require to develop a plan for addressing unintended pregnancy.
Hotel and restaurant renovation projects sales tax incentives; authorize for certain projects.
Gale Stauffer, Jr. and Joseph Maher Law Enforcement Act of 2014; create.
Bonds; authorize to provide funds for loan to North Central MS Regional Rail Authority to acquire certain rail line.
Out of committee · 1
Mississippi Patient Protection Act of 2014; enact.
In committee · 17
Gun buy-back programs; prohibit.
Firearm Protection Act; enact.
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.
School choice; establish opportunity scholarships and open enrollment for public school students.
Radar; authorize use by sheriffs.
Sentencing; provide incarceration option for first time nonviolent offenders.
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.
"The Municipal Election Reform Act of 2014"; create.
Instruments of record; require to be in the English language.
Concealed weapons permit; exempt retired law enforcement officers.
Ad valorem taxes; remove the provision that prescribes the manner in which affordable rental housing must be appraised.
State Board of Medical Licensure; add nurse practitioner member of MS Board of Nursing to.
Guns; prohibit confiscation during natural disasters.
Parental rights; establish fundamental right of parents to direct the upbringing, education and care of their children.
Law Enforcement Officers and Fire Fighters Death Benefits Fund; increase benefit and funding for.