Bills in the 2015 Regular Session, Senate.
Nancy Adams Collins
Sponsored
Became law3
Government purchasing; place restrictions on emergency and single source purchases.
"Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs" program to establish ESAs for certain students; create.
Lee County; authorize annual contributions to Sanctuary Hospice House.
Passed the Senate2
Personal Service Contract Review Board; revise membership, eliminate certain exceptions, require additional reporting and recordkeeping.
Iran Divestment Act of 2015; enact.
Out of committee1
Capitol Police; expand the law enforcement authority of.
In committee16
Sales taxes; assessment notice must be by certified mail if not delivered in person.
Literacy-Based Promotion Act; clarify good cause exemption applicable to disabled students.
Intercept gaming winnings of parents with a child support arrearage; provide procedures for.
Texting; prohibit while driving for all ages.
Public records; booking information of certain mentally ill patients exempt.
Child custody; noncustodial parent allowed opportunity to object to other parent's proposed move of minor child.
Public records; booking information of certain mentally ill patients exempt.
Regional correctional facility; MDOC may contract with Lee County to house offenders in such facility.
Appropriation FY2016; Elvis Presley Memorial Foundation for completing Master Plan 2000.
MS Gaming Commission; provide procedure to withhold gaming winnings of parents with child support arrearages.
Genetic testing; reimbursement of costs to a father successfully asserting paternity.
Appropriation FY16; complete Tupelo Veterans Plaza construction.
School district reporting on academic performance of student athletes; require SDE to develop regulations.
Adoption; clarify termination of parental rights.
Appropriation FY16; City of Saltillo for traffic signals.
Telecommunications towers and antennas; require certain to have markings for aviation safety.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 14
Memorial bridge; designate a certain bridge in Lowndes County as the Terry W. Brown Memorial Bridge.
In-state tuition; provide for nonresident students entitled to federal Veterans' Educational Assistance.
Districts of Innovation; authorize State Board of Education to approve creation of in local school districts.
Compact for a Balanced Budget; enact.
Concealed weapons law; decrease certain fees for licensees.
Investigational drugs; authorize physicians to prescribe to certain eligible terminally ill patients.
Memorial highways; designate a certain segment of U.S. Highway 45 Alternate as the Senator Bennie L. Turner Memorial Highway.
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 · 4
Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal and the Bronze Star motor vehicle tags; exempt from vehicle registration fees and taxes.
MS Military Family Relief Fund; allow utilization by Mississippi National Guardsmen regardless of mobilization status.
Autism; require insurance policies to offer coverage for/regulate practice of applied behavior analysis.
Taxpayer Pay Raise Act of 2015; phase out income taxation on first $5,000.00 of taxable income; phase out franchise tax.
Out of committee · 1
Transportation; authorize the use of autonomous motor vehicles.
In committee · 4
Public records law; exempt certain hunting license record of the Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks.
State Superintendent of Education and Commissioner of Higher Education; establish maximum salary for.
Enhanced eligibility verification system; direct Division of Medicaid to establish.
Federal exchange health plans & State Employee Health Plan; no abortion coverage may be provided by.