Bills in the 2011 Regular Session, Senate.
Eric Powell
Sponsored
Became law1
MS Community Heritage Preservation Grant Fund; revise use of certain funds.
Passed the Senate1
Headlights; require use during precipitation.
Out of committee1
Unemployment compensation; increase the minimum weekly benefit.
In committee19
Drug courts; authorize drug court judge to assess direct cost of confinement for person in jail.
Bonds; authorize issuance for repair of bridges in Alcorn and Tishomingo Counties.
State agencies; delete repealer on Department of Employment Security and related laws of other agencies.
MS Motor Vehicle Safety Inspection Law; repeal and provide additional tag fee.
Income taxation; exclude wages of certain full-time students from gross income.
Early voting; authorize a pilot program in Alcorn County.
Early voting; authorize a pilot program in Alcorn County.
Elected judiciary and district attorneys; bring forward law relating to the annual salaries of.
Bonds; issue state general obligation bonds for purchase of rights-of-way for Hwy. 15 from U.S. 78 to Tennessee state line.
Highways; Transportation Department construct Highway 72 bypass for City of Corinth.
Early Voting Act; authorize voting prior to election day.
Corrections; authorize MDOC to contract with Tishomingo County for regional prison.
First Circuit Court District; provide additional legal assistant and criminal investigator.
Minimum length of school term; school districts may use up to 5 snow days.
Elections; enact Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote.
Child support; chancellor may order itemized monthly statement.
Landfills; require to be a certain minimum distance from municipalities, schools, etc., unless written agreement from owner.
Topix.com; ban.
Bonds; authorize issuance to fund replacement of a bridge on the Oakland School Road in Alcorn County.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 6
Mississippi Country and Western Music Commission; establish.
Blue Alert System; create.
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.
Feticide; revise killing or injury of an unborn child.
Mississippi Rating Bureau; shall publish guidelines for the grading of fire trucks.
Passed the Senate · 7
Income tax; authorize a credit for taxpayers who are first-time homebuyers of a principal residence in this state.
Schedule I; expand definition of cathinone derivatives and synthetic cannabinoids.
Concealed weapons; remove prohibition against carrying in certain places.
Task Force to Study Teacher Salaries; establish.
Memorial highway; designate certain segment of U.S. Highway 78 as "William R. 'Bill' Minor Memorial Highway."
Mississippi Motion Picture Incentive Act; revise certain provisions of.
Prentiss, Alcorn, Benton, Marshall, Tippah, Tishomingo Counties; extend repealer on authority to contribute to NE MS Comm. Services.
In committee · 7
Chancery clerks; authorize, upon request, the redaction of social security numbers on recorded documents.
Disabled veterans; increase for totally disabled veterans and extend to unremarried surviving spouses of such veterans.
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.
City of Ripley; remove repeal date on tax on hotels and motels.
Suffrage; restore to Chris Mathis.
Suffrage; restore to Billy Gene Barnes.