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2015 Bill(s)

HCS HB 180
Sponsor: Cookson, Steve
Status: H Transportation
Description: Increase from a misdemeanor to a felony the penalty for a non-parent to knowingly allow a minor under age 21 to possess or drink alcohol.
See: 
  • House roll call - HCS HB 180 (05/04/2015): 3rd reading of a bill to impose tougher penalties for providing alcohol to a minor.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SCS HB 522
    Sponsor: Cookson, Steve
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Name a portion of Highway 160 in Ripley County the "Billy Yates Highway." The SCS contains several other highway naming bills.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HB 957
    Sponsor: Cookson, Steve
    Status: H Select Com. on Education
    Description: Raise the minimum salary for teachers, subject to appropriation.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HB 958
    Sponsor: Cookson, Steve
    Status: H Elementary & Secondary Education
    Description: Declare invalid any school board action that does not have a quorum of the members present. Declare no one board member has the legal authority to act on their own on behalf of the board.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HB 959
    Sponsor: Cookson, Steve
    Status: H Elementary & Secondary Education
    Description: Make it a misdemeanor crime for a parent's child to be habitually absent from school. Authorize revoking public benefits of a parent for violation.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HB 960
    Sponsor: Cookson, Steve
    Status: H Elementary & Secondary Education
    Description: Limit the salary for a school's top administrator to four times what is paid for an entry level teacher. Require the district to publish in the local newspaper the salary of every employee.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HB 961
    Sponsor: Cookson, Steve
    Status: H Elementary & Secondary Education
    Description: Prohibit career ladder salary supplements for teachers in unaccredited or provisionally accredited districts.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HB 1017
    Sponsor: Cookson, Steve
    Status: H Select Com. on Education
    Description: Require a school district audit include information aboiut the costs of rented facilities and athletic costs.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HB 1018
    Sponsor: Cookson, Steve
    Status: H Select Com. on Education
    Description: Require public school summer schol be four-day school weeks.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HB 1132
    Sponsor: Cookson, Steve
    Status: H Select Com. on Education
    Description: Provide a 10 percent funding increase for school districts with assessed property valuation per students that was withing the lowest ten percent of districts in the 2004-2005 school year.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

  • Note: The descriptions of bills, amendments and roll-call votes are written by MDN journalists. MDN's database may not include committee assignments of bills made on the last day of the session since it is too late for the committee to act on the bill and, thus, the delayed assignment has no practical effect.