Bills in the 2011 Regular Session, House.
Joe C. Gardner
Sponsored
Passed the House1
Sickle cell disease; create task force to study growing incidence and available treatment options.
Out of committee1
Military; require leave of absence for family of active duty and revise other provisions.
In committee8
Eminent domain; restrict to direct public use.
Dropout Prevention and Student Re-engagement Act; create.
Assistant teachers; include under the Education Employment Procedures Law.
Elementary school counselors; allocate funds under the Mississippi Adequate Education Program for.
School curriculum; require students to receive additional instruction in healthy living.
Mississippi Department of Labor; create.
Affordable housing; create trust fund to assist in development, rehabilitation and preservation of.
Homeowners; remove any liability when contractor fails to pay subcontractor.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 9
Domestic violence; allow use of global positioning monitoring system as condition of bond.
Insurance adjuster; exclude any person who is a multi-peril crop insurance adjuster in definition of.
Kidnapping; include vulnerable persons.
Driver's license; provide for 8-year license as option to 4-year license during fiscal year 2012.
Parental choice for assignment of twins or other multiples to class; delete repealer.
Sex-related education; require local school boards to adopt a policy on and implement.
MS Autism Advisory Committee; create to study how to best educate and train individual with autism or ASD.
Uniform Athlete Agents Act; revise and enhance regulatory authority of Secretary of State.
City of Sardis; extend repealer on authority to impose tax on hotels, motels and restaurants.
Passed the House · 10
Open Meetings and Public Records Acts; revise imposition of penalties for violation of.
Poverty; create task force to study impact of immigrants on poverty in Mississippi.
State Longitudinal Data System; develop to establish a multiagency database.
Public school students; authorize community service as an alternative to suspension or expulsion.
Rural water systems or associations; include under Open Meetings Act and Public Records Act.
Power of attorney; revise certain provisions pertaining to the Uniform Durable Power of Attorney Act.
Department of Public Safety's Planning Division; clarify certain duties of.
Child support; revise how disability benefits are credited.
U.S. Highway 78; designate certain segment of in Benton and Marshall Counties as "William 'Bill' Minor Memorial Highway".
Mississippi High School Activities Association; provide legislative oversight for and appoint advisors.
In committee · 1
Bonds; authorize issuance to provide funds for certain railroad line improvements.