Bills in the 2009 Regular Session, Senate.
Merle Flowers
Sponsored
Passed the Senate4
2009 First Extraordinary Session · CON; direct SDH to issue for acute care hospital beds in Olive Branch, Mississippi, and for other projects.
Firearms; restrict power of confiscation.
Concealed weapons; remove prohibition against carrying in a public park.
CON; direct SDH to issue for acute care hospital beds in DeSoto County.
Out of committee1
Ethics in lobbying reform; omnibus bill.
In committee19
Distinctive motor vehicle license tags; prohibit receipt by Medicaid recipients.
Distinctive motor vehicle license tag; authorize for Olive Branch High School.
Income taxation; authorize a credit for payment of health insurance premiums.
Lobbyists; restrict hiring of by certain state entities.
Legislative subpoenas; provide for enforcement of.
State Public School Building Fund; annual distribution to school districts based on average daily attendance.
Computer spyware; prohibit.
Unmarked vehicles; exempt local school districts from marking requirements.
Public assistance benefits; require applicants to verify United States citizenship or lawful presence to qualify.
Legislature; prohibit members from accepting contributions during regular and special sessions.
Psychiatric residential treatment facility; allow all beds in facility in DeSoto County to participate in Medicaid.
Adolescent inpatient psychiatric services; Division of Medicaid to implement DRG payment methodology for.
Nepotism; clarify that an appointment to a board overseeing a relative is a violation.
Teacher salaries; authorize school districts to negotiate salary amount with retired teachers from other states.
Residential homebuilders/remodelers and State Board of Contractors; revise licensure provisions and extend repealer.
Medicaid recipients; redetermine eligibility every 6 months.
Lobbying; revise definitions.
State agencies; lobbyist contracts subject to Personal Services Contract Review Board and other evaluative process.
Records retention policy; create task force to study.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 3
Statue of Jefferson Davis; restore Confederate Monument at Old Capitol Building and replace original statue.
Sales tax; revise rate on certain sales of tractors, farm implements, logging/pulpwood equipment, repair parts and labor.
Freedom to Farm Act; include honeybee production under definition of agricultural operations.
Vetoed · 2
2009 Second Extraordinary Session · Appropriation; Gaming Commission.
2009 Second Extraordinary Session · Appropriation; Mississippi Development Authority.
Passed the Senate · 6
Public benefits; agencies administering programs for must verify lawful presence in U.S. of applicants for.
Eminent domain; restrict to direct public use.
Mississippi Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Commission; establish.
Charter schools; authorize additional open-enrollment public charter schools with certain requirements.
Appropriation; Gaming Commission.
Appropriation; Mississippi Development Authority.
In committee · 9
2009 First Extraordinary Session · Eminent domain; restrict to direct public use.
Mississippi "Country Music Trail" program and historical markers; MDA Division of Tourism to establish.
Seventeenth Circuit Court District; revise election of fourth judge.
Homestead exemption; repeal Section 27-33-79, which limits amount of reimbursement increases or decreases.
Income taxation; exclude wages of certain full-time students from gross income.
Lobbyist clients; require State of Mississippi to file annual report (PEER).
Contract lobbyists; prohibit uses of public funds to pay (PEER).
PEER Committee; create criminal offense and revise subpoena power (PEER).
Random nicotine testing; require for Medicaid recipients.