Bills in the 2010 Regular Session, Senate.
Alice Harden
Sponsored
Out of committee1
School boards; revise composition for certain school districts.
In committee47
Flexible office hours for certain state agencies; authorize.
School district sixteenth section principal fund; authorize local school boards to expend certain amount.
Master Teacher certificate salary supplement; teachers beginning the process after June 30, 2010, not eligible to receive.
Human Relations Commission; establish.
Retired teachers; may draw retirement benefits and be reemployed as teachers if they have 25 years of creditable service.
State Workforce Investment Board; make report to the Legislature on the economic contributions of immigrants.
Study selection and governance structures of local school boards; create task force.
Mississippi Department of Labor and Commissioner of Labor; establish.
Voter; define all convicted felons as not qualified.
School bonds; require 55% vote to pass.
Interpreter fund; create and place under management of Administrative Office of Courts.
School guidance counselors; provide state funds for.
Donated leave; return unused leave pursuant to school board policy.
Office of Occupational Safety and Health; State Department of Health shall establish.
Workers' Compensation; require workplace medical services and transportation for injured employees.
Unemployment compensation benefits; eliminate one-week waiting period for eligibility.
Personal care homes; create program of Medicaid assistance payments for.
School district; elect members of all school boards in 2013.
Legislature; shall not meet on General Robert E. Lee/Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday.
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.
Agreement between child development tech programs at the community colleges and the universities; require.
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.
Retirement; retirees may be reemployed for 195 days per fiscal year.
Teachers' salaries; increase next 5 years and determine "living wage" for assistant teachers.
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.
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.
Student loans; provide graduate degree teacher incentive loans to applicants agreeing to teach in public schools or universities.
Income tax; provide credit for out-of-pocket classroom supply expenditures made by public schoolteachers.
Sales tax; exempt retail sales of certain food for human consumption.
Mississippi Community/Junior College Transfer Scholarship Fund; create.
Accumulated personal leave; authorize transfer between state and county agencies.
State Board of Dental Examiners; provide for two additional members from the state at large.
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.
Deferred Retirement Option Program (DROP); create.
MS Veterans Memorial Stadium; transfer and convey to Jackson State University.
Furlough Plan for State of Mississippi; require for FY2010.
School cafeteria workers; provide state funded insurance on a phased-in basis.
Mental commitment; revise 72-hour hold.
Mental health; create pilot program in Hinds County for single point of entry for persons detained by law enforcement.
Hinds County; may establish the Hinds Co. Economic Development Authority and abolish Hinds Co. Economic Development District.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 15
Bullying or harassing behavior in the schools; prohibit.
Self-administration of prescription asthma/anaphylaxis medication by students; clarify policy.
Mississippi Public Health Laboratory; name for Dr. Ed Thompson.
Armed Forces Absentee Voting Law; make changes to comply with federal law.
State Employee Wellness Program; establish.
Domestic violence; revise elements of the offense.
Appropriation; Banking and Consumer Finance.
Appropriation; MS Department of Employment Security.
Appropriation; Mississippi Department of Revenue.
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.
Passed the Senate · 3
Veterans Day; clarify public observance of.
Income tax; authorize a credit for taxpayers who are first-time homebuyers of a principal residence in this state.
Stalking; revise elements of offense.
Out of committee · 1
School students with asthma; require all school districts to take certain actions relating to.
In committee · 8
Auto insurance; deductible provisions shall not apply to windshield damage.
Identity theft; establish procedure for victim to have debt forgiven and credit reports purged.
Criminal convictions; judge to explain to convict whether he remains a qualified elector.
Workers' compensation disability payments; extend time period for receiving.
Income tax; authorize transfer, sale or assignment of credit received for rehabilitation of certain historic structures.
State lottery; create and provide for the distribution of revenue from.
Environmental justice; require meaningful involvement of all people in siting process.
Appropriation; State Department of Education; national board certification, additional for FY2010.