Bills in the 2009 Regular Session, Senate.
Alice Harden
Sponsored
Out of committee1
Hinds County; may establish the Hinds Co. Economic Development Authority and abolish Hinds Co. Economic Development District.
In committee40
MS Veterans Memorial Stadium; transfer and convey to Jackson State University.
Legislature; shall not meet on General Robert E. Lee/Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday.
Mississippi Community/Junior College Transfer Scholarship Fund; create.
State Board of Dental Examiners; provide for two additional members from the state at large.
Accumulated personal leave; authorize transfer between state and county agencies.
School guidance counselors; provide state funds for.
Donated leave; return unused leave pursuant to school board policy.
Human Relations Commission; establish.
Office of Occupational Safety and Health; State Department of Health shall establish.
Workers' Compensation; require workplace medical services and transportation for injured employees.
Interpreter fund; create and place under management of Administrative Office of Courts.
Appropriation FY10; fund community college transfer program.
School bonds; require 55% vote to pass.
Voter; define all convicted felons as not qualified.
Study selection and governance structures of local school boards; create task force.
Mississippi Department of Labor and Commissioner of Labor; establish.
Unemployment compensation benefits; eliminate one-week waiting period for eligibility.
School district; elect members of all school boards in 2009.
Personal care homes; create program of Medicaid assistance payments for.
Workers' compensation; injured employee may select specialists who provide type of treatment prescribed.
School districts provide an annual report of teacher vacancies to the SBE and the Legislature; require.
Student loans; provide graduate degree teacher incentive loans to applicants agreeing to teach in public schools or universities.
Sales tax; exempt retail sales of certain food for human consumption.
Income tax; provide credit for out-of-pocket classroom supply expenditures made by public schoolteachers.
Flexible office hours for certain state agencies; authorize.
Tuition-free attendance at any state IHL or comm. college; authorize for students with at least 3.0 GPA regardless of immigration status.
Annual leave for teachers; allow additional accumulation of personal leave.
Deferred Retirement Option Program (DROP); create.
Retired teachers; may draw retirement benefits and be reemployed as teachers if they have 25 years of creditable service.
Unused sick leave earned by teachers; authorize one-time payment by school district.
Substitute teachers may be paid twice per month and while student teaching; authorize.
Birthday cutoff date for 5- and 6-year old enrollment in public kindergarten or first grade; move to January 1.
Retirement; retirees may be reemployed for 195 days per fiscal year.
State Workforce Investment Board; make report to the Legislature on the economic contributions of immigrants.
Teachers' salaries; increase next 5 years and determine "living wage" for assistant teachers.
MS Civil Rights Museum; create under authority of Department of Archives and History/issue bonds to construct.
E-verification of employee work eligibility status; repeal law.
Consumer collection agencies; require registration and prohibit certain acts.
Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act; require Judicial College to train judges, DAs & law enforcement officers.
Sales tax; revise definition of "business" to exclude food sales paid by certain declining balance debit cards.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 15
2009 Second Extraordinary Session · Appropriation; Banking and Consumer Finance.
2009 Second Extraordinary Session · Appropriation; MS Department of Employment Security.
2009 Second Extraordinary Session · Appropriation; MS Workers Compensation Comm.
2009 Second Extraordinary Session · Appropriation; Bd. of Architecture.
2009 Second Extraordinary Session · Appropriation; Bd. of Public Accountancy.
2009 Second Extraordinary Session · Appropriation; Public Contractors Bd.
2009 Second Extraordinary Session · Appropriation; Mississippi Board of Registered Professional Geologists.
Corrections; remove the cap on meritorious earned time.
2009 Second Extraordinary Session · Appropriation; Tax Commission.
Boards of supervisors; require to establish an indigent burial policy.
Mississippi Athletic Trainers Licensure Act; revise licensure provisions.
Intensive supervision; remove 1-year limitation on placement and the restriction on placing certain drug offenders in the program.
Public purchasing law; revise certain requirements for projects under the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Sales tax; authorize certain municipalities to levy additional tax for certain purposes.
Bonds; authorize to provide loans to Hinds County for the Old Capitol Green Project.
Vetoed · 1
2009 Second Extraordinary Session · Appropriation; Motor Vehicle Comm.
Passed the Senate · 16
Eminent domain; restrict to direct public use.
Compulsory school attendance law; remove requirement for prior approval for medical/dental appointments, etc.
Corrections; allow offenders convicted of small quantity drug violations to be eligible for trusty time allowance.
State IHL Board; authorize to acquire or sell real property for certain universities in their program of operations.
Mississippi State University; revise IHL Board's authority to acquire or sell land for the use of.
Bonds; increase amount authorized for the Supplementary Rural Fire Truck Fund and the Rural Fire Truck Fund.
Appropriation; Banking and Consumer Finance.
Appropriation; MS Department of Employment Security.
Appropriation; Tax Commission.
Appropriation; MS Workers Compensation Comm.
Appropriation; Bd. of Architecture.
Appropriation; Mississippi Board of Registered Professional Geologists.
Appropriation; Motor Vehicle Comm.
Appropriation; Bd. of Public Accountancy.
Appropriation; Public Contractors Bd.
Bonds; auth. g.o. bonds for DFA improvements at State Fire Academy & Local System Bridge Replacement & Rehab. Fund.
Out of committee · 1
Ad valorem tax; increase mills that municipalities may levy for recreational purposes.
In committee · 4
Health insurance; require health insurance policies and State Health plan to cover autism spectrum disorders.
Cigarette tax; increase and require revenue from increase to be used for Medicaid reimbursements.
Bonds; authorize issuance for certain state highway and infrastructure projects.
Bonds; authorize issuance of bonds for improvements to the Jackson Zoo.