Bills in the 2011 Regular Session, Senate.
Billy Hewes
Sponsored
Became law6
Dept. of Finance & Administration; authorize to maintain a list of suspended contractors & subcontractors.
"Mississippi Accountability and Transparency Act"; define data to be maintained on searchable website.
Career track program for students not pursuing baccalaureate degree; provide certain conditions.
Commission on School Payroll, Business and Procurement Efficiency; establish.
Memorial highway; designate a certain segment of highway adjacent to Camp Shelby as "Chaplin Clark Polling Memorial Highway."
Parentage proceedings; correct Title and Chapter subject heading references in the Mississippi Code of 1972.
Passed the Senate6
Tort immunity; include food donated to needy.
Auto liability insurance coverage; require before receiving tag.
Animal cruelty; revise.
Income tax; increase credit for ad valorem tax paid on inventory.
Mississippi S.A.F.E. Mortgage Act; applies to activities of owner financing only as determined by HUD.
Legislative mail carrier; delete statutory authority for.
In committee22
Public assistance benefits; require applicants to submit to random drug testing to qualify.
Furlough Plan for State of Mississippi; require.
Katie's Law; require DNA sample upon all felony arrests.
Sunshine attorney act; require review of certain contracts for outside counsel.
MS Telephone Solicitation Act; apply to cellular telephones.
School board members elected in all districts; superintendents appointed after January 1, 2012.
Reorganization of all public school districts in MS; require one school district per county.
State General Fund budget requests; impose limitations on the growth of state agency budget requests.
Compulsory school attendance requirements; child with 30 or more excused/unexcused absences not allowed to advance or graduate.
Workers' Compensation; provide for admissibility of drug and alcohol testing.
Drug and alcohol testing in the workplace; provide certain standards.
School start date; require local school boards to fix the opening of the school term no earlier than the fourth Monday in August.
Mississippi Civic Literacy Act; enact.
Appropriations; Department of Public Safety Highway Patrol trooper training class.
Mississippi S.A.F.E. Mortgage Act; exempt any natural person making a mortgage loan with his own funds.
Automatic school district transfer for children of military parents stationed in Mississippi; provide for.
Workers' Compensation Law; define purpose to be impartially construed.
"Mississippi Honoring Patients' Assignment of Health Care Benefits Act"; enact.
Corrections; authorize sheriffs and police chiefs to operate a jamming system within correctional facility.
Distinctive motor vehicle license tag; authorize for supporters of Farm Families of Mississippi.
Eminent domain; property owner to recover costs under certain circumstances.
Small Municipalities and Limited Population Counties Fund; authorize issuance of general obligation bonds for.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 4
Blue Alert System; create.
Nathan's law; increase penalty for unlawful passing of school bus.
Memorial highway; designate a certain segment of I-59 as "Mississippi Gold Star Memorial Highway."
Veterans Day; clarify public observance of.
Passed the Senate · 5
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.
Charter schools; authorize open-enrollment and conversion public charter schools in the state.
Memorial highway; designate certain segment of U.S. Highway 78 as "William R. 'Bill' Minor Memorial Highway."
In committee · 5
Chancery clerks; authorize, upon request, the redaction of social security numbers on recorded documents.
Mississippi Check Cashers Act; extend repealer on.
Sales taxation; exempt retail sales of school supplies during the last weekend in July.
Bonds; authorize issuance for repairs and renovations at Buccaneer State Park.
Income tax, jobs credit; aggregate jobs created by qualifying business in entertainment dist. for purposes of minimum jobs req.