Bills in the 2011 Regular Session, Senate.
Alice Harden
Sponsored
Became law1
Students with disabilities; revise civil action time limitation.
In committee56
MS Civil Rights Museum; create under authority of Department of Archives and History/issue bonds to construct.
Consumer collection agencies; require registration and prohibit certain acts.
Retirement; retirees may be reemployed for 195 days per fiscal year.
Unused sick leave earned by teachers; authorize one-time payment by school district.
Teachers' salaries; increase next 5 years and determine "living wage" for assistant teachers.
School guidance counselors; provide state funds for.
Annual leave for teachers; allow additional accumulation of personal leave.
School district; elect members of all municipal school boards in 2013.
Personal care homes; create program of Medicaid assistance payments for.
Workers' Compensation; require workplace medical services and transportation for injured employees.
Office of Occupational Safety and Health; State Department of Health shall establish.
Furlough Plan for State of Mississippi; require for FY2011.
Workers' Compensation; injured employee may select specialists who provide type of treatment prescribed.
State Board of Dental Examiners; provide for two additional members from the state at large.
School districts provide an annual report of teacher vacancies to the SBE and the Legislature; require.
MS Veterans Memorial Stadium; transfer and convey to Jackson State University.
School cafeteria workers; provide state-funded insurance on a phased-in basis.
Voter; define all convicted felons as not qualified.
Donated leave; return unused leave pursuant to school board policy.
Mississippi Department of Labor and Commissioner of Labor; establish.
School bonds; require 55% vote to pass.
Interpreters fund; create and place under management of Administrative Office of Courts.
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.
Tuition-free attendance at any state IHL or comm. college; authorize for students with at least 3.0 GPA regardless of immigration status.
Student loans; provide graduate degree teacher incentive loans to applicants agreeing to teach in public schools or universities.
Birthday cutoff date for 5- and 6-year old enrollment in public kindergarten or first grade; move to January 1.
Retired teachers; may draw retirement benefits and be reemployed as teachers if they have 25 years of creditable service.
Master Teacher certificate salary supplement; teachers beginning the process after June 30, 2011, not eligible to receive.
School district sixteenth section principal fund; authorize local school boards to expend certain amount.
Flexible office hours for certain state agencies; authorize.
Study selection and governance structures of local school boards; create task force.
Substitute teachers may be paid twice per month and while student teaching; authorize.
Accumulated personal leave; authorize transfer between state and county agencies.
Mississippi Community/Junior College Transfer Scholarship Fund; create.
State Workforce Investment Board; make report to the Legislature on the economic contributions of immigrants.
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.
Agreement between child development tech programs at the community colleges and the universities; require.
Sales tax; revise definition of "business" to exclude food sales paid by certain declining balance debit cards.
E-verification of employee work eligibility status; repeal law.
Students with disabilities; parents have option of tape recording IEP meetings.
Students with disabilities; parents provided alternate assessment scores at no cost.
Students with disabilities; parents shall receive copy of outside evaluation and observation report.
Students with a disability; parents provided copy of child's assessment.
Human Relations Commission; establish.
Deferred Retirement Option Program (DROP); create.
Unemployment compensation benefits; eliminate one-week waiting period for eligibility.
State Advisory Panel on Special Education; revise membership and duties.
Students with disabilities; revise complaint procedures to supply parents with response information.
Students with disabilities; findings in parental complaints shall be sent to local school board members.
Bonds; authorize for mechanical upgrades at the Alexander Center at Jackson State University.
Bonds; authorize for the replacement of Dansby Hall at Jackson State University.
Bonds; authorize to acquire and improve property for Jackson State University.
Bonds; authorize for upgrades for the fire suppression system of the Alexander Center at Jackson State University.
City of Jackson; remove the repeal date on the Jackson Convention and Visitors Bureau.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 15
All-terrain vehicles; require competency training and helmets under a certain age.
Memorial highway; designate a certain segment of I-59 as "Mississippi Gold Star Memorial Highway."
Ad valorem school taxes; exempt publication requirement if no increase in ad valorem tax effort in dollars is proposed.
Appropriation; Banking and Consumer Finance, Department of.
Appropriation; Employment Security, Department of.
Appropriation; Revenue, Department of.
Appropriation; Tax Appeals Board.
Appropriation; Workers' Compensation Commission.
Appropriation; Architecture, Board of.
Appropriation; Geologists, Board of Registered Professional.
Appropriation; Motor Vehicle Commission.
Appropriation; Accountancy, Board of Public.
Appropriation; Contractors, Board of.
Bonds; authorize the issuance of state general obligation bonds for state agencies and institutions of higher learning.
Mayor-council form of government; council members of certain may have offices in city hall.
Passed the Senate · 4
Divorce; create bona fide separation as the 13th ground.
Driving; prohibit texting and revise punishment for no license.
Memorial highway; designate certain segment of U.S. Highway 78 as "William R. 'Bill' Minor Memorial Highway."
Bonds; authorize issuance to provide funds for construction of Mississippi Civil Rights Museum and Museum of Mississippi History.
Out of committee · 1
Elections; increase fee paid by legislative candidates upon entering the race for party nominations.
In committee · 4
Mississippi Civil Rights Museum; establish commission to select site and employ director.
Public contracts related to a federally declared disaster; grant preference to resident contractors.
Bonds; increase amount authorized for a children's museum in Hinds County.
Hinds County; authorize to pay PERS employer contributions on net fee income of constables.