Bills in the 2012 Regular Session, Senate.
Alice Harden
Sponsored
Out of committee2
Mississippi Department of Labor and Commissioner of Labor; establish.
Unemployment compensation benefits; eliminate one-week waiting period for eligibility.
In committee42
Interpreters fund; create and place under management of Administrative Office of Courts.
Mississippi Community College Transfer Scholarship Fund; create.
Birthday cutoff date for 5- and 6-year-old enrollment in public kindergarten or first grade; move to January 1.
Student loans; provide graduate degree teacher incentive loans to applicants agreeing to teach in public schools or universities.
Tuition-free attendance at any state IHL or comm. college; authorize for students with at least 3.0 GPA regardless of immigration status.
Income tax; provide credit for out-of-pocket classroom supply expenditures made by public schoolteachers.
School bonds; require 55% vote to pass.
School cafeteria workers; provide state-funded insurance on a phased-in basis.
Office of Occupational Safety and Health; State Department of Health shall establish.
Personal care homes; create program of Medicaid assistance payments for.
Annual leave for teachers; allow additional accumulation of personal leave.
Teachers' salaries; increase next 5 years and determine "living wage" for assistant teachers.
School guidance counselors; provide state funds for.
Accumulated personal leave; authorize transfer between state and county agencies.
Flexible office hours for certain state agencies; authorize.
Donated leave; return unused leave pursuant to school board policy.
Consumer collection agencies; require registration and prohibit certain acts.
Voter; define all convicted felons as not qualified.
E-verification of employee work eligibility status; repeal law.
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.
Study selection and governance structures of local school boards; create task force.
School district; elect members of all municipal school boards in 2013.
School districts provide an annual report of teacher vacancies to the SBE and the Legislature; require.
Legislature; shall not meet on General Robert E. Lee/Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday.
Students with disabilities; revise complaint procedures to supply parents with response information.
Human Relations Commission; establish.
Students with a disability; parents provided copy of child's assessment.
School district sixteenth section principal fund; authorize local school boards to expend certain amount.
Agreement between child development tech programs at the community colleges and the universities; require.
Bonds; authorize for upgrades for the fire suppression system of the Alexander Center at Jackson State University.
Bonds; authorize to acquire and improve property for Jackson State University.
Bonds; authorize for the replacement of Dansby Hall at Jackson State University.
Workers' compensation; injured employee may select specialists who provide type of treatment prescribed.
Workers' compensation; require workplace medical services and transportation for injured employees.
Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act; require Judicial College to train judges, DAs & law enforcement officers.
Retirement; retirees may be reemployed for 195 days per fiscal year.
Sales tax; exempt retail sales of certain food for human consumption.
State Workforce Investment Board; make report to the Legislature on the economic contributions of immigrants.
Deferred Retirement Option Program (DROP); create.
Sales tax; revise definition of "business" to exclude food sales paid by certain declining balance debit cards.
State Board of Dental Examiners; provide for two additional members from the state at large.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 8
Appropriation; Finance and Administration, Department of.
Appropriation; Governor's Office and Mansion.
Appropriation; Audit, Department of.
Appropriation; Information Technology Services, Department of.
Appropriation; Personnel Board.
Appropriation; Secretary of State.
Appropriation; Treasurer's Office.
Appropriation; Debt service and bank service charges.
In committee · 1
Bonds; authorize to assist in the establishment of the GRAMMY Museum in Cleveland, Mississippi.