Bills in the 2013 Regular Session, Senate.
Nancy Adams Collins
Sponsored
Became law3
Memorial highways; designate Mississippi Highway 6 in Lee County as the "Military Order of the Purple Heart Highway."
Erin's Law; create study committee to study implementation of curriculum based on.
Lee County; authorize annual contributions to Sanctuary Hospice House.
Passed the Senate6
Public Records Act; cost for records shall be at pay scale of lowest level employee.
State agency vehicles; extend moratorium on acquisition of.
Department of Information Technology Services; may charge vendors a fee to recover cost of providing procurement services.
Public purchasing; DFA shall receive rebates from state contracts established by DFA.
Purchasing Certification Program; require all purchasing officials at state agencies to complete.
Child support program; authorize Department of Human Services to contract to improve performance and efficiency.
Out of committee2
Appropriation and budget process for federal funds; set forth conditions for matching funds.
Bonds; require certain information to be made public prior to issuance.
In committee18
Mandatory student physical education requirements; provide teacher and administrator licensure suspension if not followed.
Public assistance benefits; require applicants to submit to random drug testing to qualify.
Funding for universities and community colleges; restrict remedial courses.
Public employees; DFA shall publish on its website database listing all employees whose salary exceeds a certain amount.
PERS; all records are public except elements of individual records which could be used to identify a member.
Public assistance benefits; require applicants to participate in mandatory community service programs to qualify.
Low-Income Student Scholarship Tax Credit Act; enact.
Texting; prohibit while driving for all ages.
Adoption; revise fine for illegal placement of children.
Mississippi Public Management Internship Program; establish under IHL.
Verification of student attendance; define responsibility of teachers and parents.
Mississippi Civic Literacy Act.
IVF Parental Protection and Adoption and Ethical Treatment of Human Embryos Act of 2013; create.
Opportunity scholarships for low-income students to attend nonpublic schools; create and allow tax credits.
PERS; revise membership of board; revise retirement time for current employees; freeze COLA for 3 years, revise amount thereafter.
Virtual school programs; provide standards and funding for virtual school instruction in all school districts.
Financial literacy curriculum; require State Board of Education to revise grades for which offered.
Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS); create study committee and revise board membership.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 14
State Personnel Director; revise qualifications of.
Rural Physicians Scholarship Program; remove limitation on number of students admitted each year.
Literacy-Based Promotion Act; establish in public schools to achieve grade-level reading by end of 3rd Grade.
Professional licenses; certain military-trained applicants and military spouses shall receive by reciprocity when in Mississippi.
Mississippi Education Works Program; enact education reforms.
Mississippi Community Oriented Policing Services in Schools (MCOPS) grant program; establish in the State Department of Education.
Volunteer fire department; include within the scope of immunity under the Tort Claims Act.
Appropriation; Mental Health, Department of.
Appropriation; Agriculture and Commerce, Department of.
Appropriation; Egg Marketing Board.
Appropriation; Animal Health, Board of.
Appropriation; Fair and Coliseum Commission.
Appropriation; Fair and Coliseum Commission - Livestock shows.
Appropriation; Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Development Authority.
Passed the Senate · 3
Weapons; clarify definition of "concealed" and revise gun-carry permit.
State agency property; authorize DFA as central leasing agent for all state agencies.
Severance tax; reduce for 30 months for oil and gas produced from and after 7/1/13 from horizontally drilled wells.
In committee · 1
Mississippi Department of Human Services; abolish and transfer programs to federal government.