Bills in the 2010 Regular Session, Senate.
Cindy Hyde-Smith
Sponsored
Became law4
Department of Human Services; revise restrictions regarding employees participating in political campaigns.
Municipalities; change the date upon which elected municipal officers take office.
Petroleum Products Inspection Law of MS; revise penalties and extend repealer on definitions.
Mississippi Interpreter Registration Law; clarify confidentiality, update definitions, etc.
Passed the Senate3
Vulnerable adult investigations; conform to new reporting requirements.
Retirement; exclude value of noncash maintenance furnished to PERS members for retirement purposes.
State Department of Rehabilitation Services perform criminal record background checks on employees and volunteers; authorize.
In committee13
Department of Mental Health; revise qualifications for executive director.
Columbia Training School; authorize alternative uses by DHS.
Judgment for overdue child support and enforcement by DHS; delete certain statute reverters.
Family protection specialists under DHS; extend repealers.
Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science; transfer to Mississippi School of the Arts.
Board of Mental Health; contract with Region 7 Community Mental Health to operate crisis center in Brookhaven.
Paternity; clarify conditions for disestablishment of.
Mississippi Catfish Marketing Law; delete repealer.
State mental institutions; patients admitted less than 6 months not required to pay social security disability to the institution.
Mental Health, Department of; employees who are provided housing on facility grounds must pay rent.
Individuals delinquent in child support payments; authorize release of income/sales tax information.
Severed mineral interests; require registration in the office of the chancery clerk.
Farmers markets; clarify sales tax provisions regarding products sold at markets certified by Department of Agriculture.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 14
2010 Second Extraordinary Session · Synthetic cannabinoids; revise Schedule I to include.
Bullying or harassing behavior in the schools; prohibit.
Mississippi Public Health Laboratory; name for Dr. Ed Thompson.
Armed Forces Absentee Voting Law; make changes to comply with federal law.
Bonds; authorize for matching funds for construction of a regional workforce training center at Southwest MS Community College.
Appropriation; Dept. of Mental Health.
Appropriation; Dept. of Audit.
Appropriation; Finance & Admin. Consol.
Appropriation; Governor's Office and Mansion.
Appropriation; Information Technology Services.
Appropriation; Personnel Bd.
Appropriation; Secretary of State.
Appropriation; Debt Service-Bank Ser. Charge.
Appropriation; Treasurers Office.
Passed the Senate · 5
Concealed weapons; remove prohibition against carrying in a public park.
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.
Nathan's law; increase penalty for unlawful passing of school bus.
Mississippi Silver Alert System Act of 2010; create.
Out of committee · 1
Public property; authorize DFA to exchange certain property between two public entities.