Education

• Early Intervention Task Force; establish. 2023

• School board members; increase pay. 2023

• General Fund; FY2024 appropriation to T.K Martin Center for the Mississippi Early Intervention Pilot Project. 2023

• Audiology and speech-language pathology interstate compact; create. 2022

• Teachers' salaries; provide increase to minimum salary. 2022

• MAEP; Department of Education required to hold harmless school district from calculating 2020-2021 average daily attendance. 2021

• Teacher license; allow reciprocity if teacher possesses standard license from other state and passes background check. 2021

• Dyslexia Awareness Training Program; require teachers to complete two hours of training for. 2021

• Computer science curriculum; require State Department of Education to implement in K-12 public schools. 2021

• Equity in Distance Learning Act; enact. 2020

 

Health Care

• Mississippi Prior Authorization Reform Act; enact. 2023

• Anatomical gifts; prohibit discrimination against recipient based on disability. 2022

• Health insurance; revise mandated coverage for telemedicine services. 2022

• Community mental health centers; provide that health insurers may not deny the right to participate as a contract provider. 2022

• Volunteer firefighters; allow local governments to pay certain expenses for injury, illness and insurance. 2022

• Hudson's Law; require healthcare providers to provide information to parents who receive a postnatal diagnosis of a chromosomal disorder. 2021

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Punishing Criminals and Backed the Blue

• Third Circuit Court District; increase number of assistant district attorneys and criminal investigators. 2023

• Prevention of overdoses; authorize administration of opioid antagonists by certain persons, provide immunity to. 2023

• Tianeptine; classify as a Schedule I substance. 2023

• Emergency Response and Overdose Prevention Act; amend to expand the distribution and use of opioid antagonists. 2023

• Mississippi Vulnerable Person Abuse Registry; create. 2023

• Department of Public Safety; revise salaries of officers. 2022

• Human trafficking; create civil cause of action for engaging in or benefitting from. 2022

• Mississippi Pill Press Law of 2022; enact. 2022

• Law Enforcement Officers Death Benefits Trust Fund; include presumption of eligibility for officers with COVID-19. 2022

• Pretrial Intervention Program; prohibit eligibility for persons charged with public embezzlement over a certain amount. 2021

• Domesticated dogs and cats; revise offense of abuse of. 2020
   

Family Values

• Mississippi Foster Parents’ Bill of Rights and Responsibilities; create. 2023

• Income tax credit; allow for employer making direct payments to entity for dependent care on behalf of employee. 2023

• Material harmful to minors; provide for liability for any entity that distributes on the internet without age verification. 2023

• CPS; enact Mississippi Safe Haven Law, establish clear path to permanency for children in custody of. 2023

• Foster Care and Adoption Task Force; create. 2023

• Mississippi Safe Haven Law; enact. 2023

• Early Intervention Act for Infants and Toddlers; add certain individuals to definition of qualified personnel. 2023

• Income tax credit for qualified adoption expenses; increase amount for Mississippi children and remove CPS requirement. 2023

• Mississippi Access to Maternal Assistance Program; create and provides for duties and responsibilities. 2023

• Mississippi Healthy Food Families Program; create. 2023

• Foster children; may sign certain rental agreements if over 18. 2022

• Mississippi Dementia Care Program, Food Bank Pilot Programming; create. 2021

• Autopsies; provide for confidentiality of photographs and recordings of. 2021

• Secretary of State's official seal; include the phrase "In God We Trust" at the bottom. 2020

• Uninsured Motorist Act; provide coverage for claims involving vehicles owned or operated by persons protected by the MS Tort Claims Act. 2020

• Motor vehicles; allow registrant to indicate condition impeding effective communication for law enforcement notification. 2020
   

• Economic Development

• Transportation; allow and regulate autonomous vehicles. 2023

• Real estate licensee; revise liability. 2023

• City of Batesville; extend repealer on hotel/motel & restaurant tourism tax. 2023

• City of Batesville; extend repealer on restaurant, hotel and motel tax for tourism. 2022

• Travel Insurance Act of 2022; create. 2022

• MS Real Estate Commission; require to establish program using administrative hearing officers. 2022

• Mississippi Industries for the Blind; define authority to enter into agreements with public or private entities. 2022

• Mississippi Equal Pay Act; enact. 2022

• Personal delivery devices; regulate. 2022

• Town of Sardis; authorize the levy of a tax on hotel, motel and restaurant sales. 2022

• Alcoholic beverages; revise various provisions relating to distilleries. 2021

• Bonds; increase authorized amount for improvements to facilities to house Concourse Workforce Training Center. 2021

• General obligation bonds; increase authorized bonded indebtedness for Concourse Workforce Training Center. 2020

• Bonds; authorize to assist in improvements to facilities to house Concourse Workforce Training Center in Batesville. 2020

• Workforce development; create study committee on and require agencies, departments and institutions to report certain monies related to. 2020

• Mississippi Back-to-Business Liability Assurance and Health Care Emergency Response Liability Protection Act; create. 2020
   

• Government Efficiency and Accountability

• Ballot initiative measure process; revise the statutory provisions of. 2023

• Homestead; provide full exemption for unremarried surviving spouse of U.S. military member killed on active duty or training. 2023

• Fees for county garbage collection; revise provision related to. 2023

• State inmates; require MDOC to pay increased rate to house inmates in county jails. 2023

• Eminent domain; codify constitutional amendment. 2022

• City of Oxford; amend code reference to conform to governing law change from PERS to MS Uniform Prudent Investor Act. 2021

• Lafayette County; change governing law for county trust fund investments from PERS to MS Uniform Prudent Investor Act. 2021

• City of Oxford; change governing law for city trust fund investments from PERS to MS Uniform Prudent Investor Act. 2020
   

• Infrastructure

• Capital Expense Fund; FY2024 appropriation to MDOT for certain infrastructure expenses (4 laning hwy 7)  2023

• Mississippi Municipality and County Water Infrastructure Grant Program Act of 2022"; establish. 2022

• City of Oxford; authorize expansion of water system within a certain distance outside corporate limits. 2022

• Bonds; authorize issuance to improve capacity and safety of intersection of MS Highway 7 and University Avenue in Oxford. 2020

• Bonds; authorize issuance to assist Lafayette County in paying costs of road projects. 2021

• Rural Fire Truck Acquisition Assistance Program; authorize an additional round for counties and municipalities. 2021