Bills in the 2014 Regular Session, Senate.
Haskins Montgomery
Sponsored
Became law4
Veterans' Home Purchase Law; revise requirements for refinancing of mortgage loans.
Veterans' Home Purchase Board; authorize to designate employee to sign closing documents during absence of the director.
Distinctive motor vehicle license tags; authorize for various organizations.
City of Bay Springs; extend repeal date on city's authority to fund the Annual Bayfest Celebration.
Passed the Senate1
Cyberbullying; revise and clarify electronic communication offenses.
In committee7
Oil and gas severance tax;revise distribution between state and counties.
Deer processors; authorize to cover 50% of processing cost from abandoning individuals after 90 days.
Wild deer feeding; allow the use of corn year-round.
Nonproducing minerals; annual assessment.
Mississippi Mineral Rights Reform Act of 2015; create.
Income tax; authorize a credit for taxpayers that employ veterans.
Ad valorem taxation; exempt hunting and/or fishing leases on sixteenth section lands.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 13
2014 Second Extraordinary Session · Disaster response and recovery costs; authorize transfer to disaster trust fund.
State employees; authorize use of earned medical leave for adoption and foster care placement.
Payroll date for school district employees; authorize semimonthly payroll in discretion of local school board.
Mississippi State University; may enter into long-term leases with IHL's approval.
"Mississippi Asthma and Anaphylaxis Child Safety Act"; enact.
Agritourism; extend repealer on section regulating agritourism.
Memorial highway; designate a segment of Mississippi Highway 51 in Madison County as the William T. "Bill" Martin Memorial Highway.
Sales tax; exempt sales of firearms, ammunition and hunting supplies during Mississippi Sportsman Weekend.
Memorial highways; designate MS Highway 6 within the State of Mississippi as the "Military Order of the Purple Heart Highway."
Umbilical Cord Blood Banking Program; establish in the State Department of Health.
Memorial Highways; designate a segment of MS Highway 32 in Chickasaw County as the "Veterans Memorial Boulevard."
Appropriation; Military Department.
Appropriation; Veterans Affairs Board.
Passed the Senate · 8
Motor vehicle privilege tax; increase the period of time within which a newly acquired motor vehicle must be registered.
Wild hog; prohibit transportation of.
Expunction of felony; revise.
Public Utilities Staff; conduct survey of state universal service funds/report with recommendations.
D'Iberville property; authorize DFA to sell on behalf of USM.
Teaching Fellows Scholarship Program; establish under SBE and phase out Critical Teacher Shortage Scholarships.
Law Enforcement Officers Death Benefits Trust Fund; increase amount of benefits.
Family medicine residency programs; clarify eligible programs for funding under the Office of Mississippi Physician Workforce.
In committee · 3
West Nile Virus Mosquito Management Grant Program; establish in the State Department of Health.
Income taxation; allow a deduction for amounts contributed to accounts established to pay for uninsured wind damage to homesteads.
Small Municipalities and Limited Population Counties Fund; authorize the issuance of g.o. bonds for in the amount of $10,000,000.00.