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*Note: This page will be continuously updated as votes are taken and posted. By clicking on the bill number, you can view the full text of the bill, current status, and vote totals. Vote totals are preliminary and may differ from the final totals. To view the vote by party, copy and paste the names from the vote totals pdf here. 

 

Monday, February 25, 2019

• • • SB 2901: This bill exempts property owners and their employees from civil liability if a third party injures somebody else on said property. This should reduce the cost of doing business in the state. I voted Yes, the motion passed 78-36.

   

 

 

Tuesday, February 26, 2019

• • • HB 642: The state should prioritize existing tax dollars and reduce the debt. I voted No, the motion passed 108-6.

   

 

• • • HB 822: The State should seek to reduce costly taxes and regulations, not limit contracts and willing business opportunities through licensing, regulations, and taxation. I voted No, the motion passed 92-15.

   

 

• • HB 934: This bill seeks to exempt the sale of tangible personal property or services to the Junior League of Jackson from sales taxes. I voted Yes, the motion passed 117-0.

 

• • HB 935: The state should prioritize existing tax dollars and reduce the debt. I voted No, the motion passed 112-5.

 

• • HB 958: The state should prioritize existing tax dollars and reduce the debt. I voted No, the motion passed 100-13.

 

• • HB 1127: This bill allows new businesses which invest a certain amount of capital to pay 1/3 of an ad valorem tax. While a step in the right direction, the state should seek to decrease the tax burdens on citizens at all levels of government. Lower tax rates for new businesses are a tacit admission that current tax rates are cost prohibitive for business formation. I voted Yes, the motion passed 115-1.

 

• • HB 1427: The state should prioritize existing tax dollars and reduce the debt. I voted No, the motion passed 110-6.

 

• • HB 1429: This bill decreases the requirements to be a tax exempt business enterprise for data centers. While a step in the right direction, the state should seek to decrease the tax burdens on citizens at all levels of government, not just for particular institutions. I voted Yes, the motion passed 113-3.

 

• • HB 1430: This bill allows for those who donate to certain nonprofits to have their income tax reduced. While a step in the right direction, the state should seek to decrease the tax burdens on citizens at all levels of government. I voted Yes, the motion passed 114-2.

 

• • HB 1564: The state should prioritize existing tax dollars and reduce the debt. I voted No, the motion passed 108-7.

 

• • HB 1579: The state should prioritize existing tax dollars and reduce the debt. I voted No, the motion passed 110-5.

 

• • HB 1584: This bill decreases the amount of taxes that historic property owners have to pay. While a step in the right direction, the state should seek to decrease the tax burdens on citizens at all levels of government. I voted Yes, the motion passed 113-2.

 

• • HB 1613: This bill seeks to award tax credits to businesses or individuals who donate money to nonprofit organizations for orphans, for foster care, or for children with health problems. However, the Department of Revenue is supposed to notify those applying for credits that they do not qualify if the credit limit has been reached by others already. The state should seek to reduce taxes on everyone. I voted Yes, the motion passed 115-0.

 

• • HB 1615: The state should prioritize existing tax dollars and reduce the debt. I voted No, the motion passed 108-7.

 

• • HB 1668: This bill seeks to change how local authorities can exempt new businesses from ad valorem taxes and ratifies fees-in-lieu of taxes that had been granted prior to this bill being enacted. This is a tacit admission that the state drives people away by collecting high taxes. I voted Yes, the motion passed 115-2.

 

• • HB 1669: The state should prioritize existing tax dollars and reduce the debt. I voted No, the motion passed 104-8.

 

• • HB 1670: This bill seeks to attract newly licensed and qualified physicians to practice in geographical areas of the state in which there exists a critical shortage of physicians. While a step in the right direction, the state should seek to decrease the tax burdens on citizens at all levels of government so that people are attracted to moving to the state. I voted Yes, the motion passed 116-0.

 

• • HB 1674: The state should prioritize existing tax dollars and reduce the debt. I voted No, the motion passed 109-7.

 

• • HB 1690: This bill seeks to change tax law. Taxes and regulations are driving people out of the state. The state should reduce both. “27-7-24.9 For purposes of the income tax imposed by this chapter, a qualified freight forwarder whose business activity is taxable both within and without this state shall allocate and apportion its net business income (income which is includable in the apportionable tax base) to this state in the same manner as that for an airline as prescribed by regulations enacted by the commissioner. For the purposes of this section, the term ‘qualified freight forwarder’ means a corporation that is an affiliate of an airline and derives more than seventy percent (70%) of its annual freight forwarding service business revenue from the airline.” I voted Yes, the motion passed 106-4.

 

• • HB 1695: The state should prioritize existing tax dollars and reduce the debt. I voted No, the motion passed 104-8.

 

• • HB 1697: The state should prioritize existing tax dollars and reduce the debt. I voted No, the motion passed 104-8.

 

• • HB 1699: This bill seeks to change tax law. The State should seek to reduce costly taxes and regulations on healthcare “27-7-24.9. (1) For purposes of the income tax imposed by this chapter, a major medical laboratory service business whose business activity is taxable both within and without this state shall apportion its business income (income which is includable in the apportionable tax base) to this state by multiplying such income by an apportionment percentage determined in accordance with this section.” I voted Yes, the motion passed 113-2.

 

• • HB 1700: The state should prioritize existing tax dollars and reduce the debt. I voted No, the motion passed 107-9.

 

• • SB 2802: This bill reduces regulations by excluding buffer areas from the definition of airport. I voted No, the motion passed 113-4.

 

• • The House also considered this commemorative resolution. I voted Yes, it passed unanimously: HR 47.

 

 

Thursday, February 28, 2019

• • HB 1612: This bill authorizes the state to tax those living in Home Owners Associations, neighborhoods, or other residential property if 60% agree to be part of a Special Local Improvement Assessment District so that a blighted association can be cleaned up at the tax payers’ expense. People are leaving the state because of taxes and regulations. I voted No, the motion failed to pass 57-55.

 

• • SB 2243: This bill seeks to increase the power of the president of a county board of supervisors to declare an emergency in cases of natural disaster or invasion. The mayor or governing body of a municipality, the governing body of a county, and the Governor of Mississippi already have this power. Citizens should be encouraged to be self reliant, prepared, and practice mutual aid. Dependence on the state will weaken residents ability provide help. I voted Yes, the motion passed 117-0.

 

• • SB 2867: This bill streamlines regulations by removing state college construction projects from review by the Procurement Review Board and instead allows for the Board of Trustees for Institutions of Higher Learning to self administer subject to an agreement from the Department of Finance and Administration. I voted Yes, the motion passed 110-2.

 

• • SB 2901: This bill exempts property owners and their employees from civil liability if a third party injures somebody else on said property. This should reduce the cost of doing business in the state. I voted Yes, the motion passed 78-36.

 

• • SB 2922: This bill clarifies the definition of meat. Products marked as “Mississippi inspected and passed” shall not define cultured animal tissue produced from animal cell cultures outside of the organism from which it is derived, plant-based, or insect-based food products as meat. I voted Yes, the motion passed 117-0.

 

• • The House also considered this commemorative resolution. I voted Yes, it passed unanimously: HR 62.

 

 

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