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In the Senate, Dyess served on the Agriculture, Health and Welfare, and Transportation committees. He was the vice chairman of the Senate Judiciary B Committee. Then Senate President Randy Ewing, a Democrat from Jackson Parish, who named Dyess to the agriculture committee, noted that the minister "grew up on a small farm in Rapides Parish [and] has a special understanding of the issues facing farmers across the state and in Central Louisiana."<ref name=agric/>
In 1999, Dyess authored SB73 to make Louisiana State University at Alexandria a four-year institution. The bill was tabled when the local legislative delegation agreed that first a Senate Concurrent Resolution had to be passed wherein the regents would study the need to convert LSUA to four-year status. Subsequently, Dyess filed the necessary Senate resolution, and in 2000, Senator Joe McPherson presented the bill that passed to make LSUA a four-year institution, effective in 2001. Dyess, Representatives Randy Wiggins and Charles W. DeWitt, LSU Board Chair Charles Weems, former Representative [[Jock Scott]], and Alexandria Mayor Edward Gordon "Ned" Randolph (1942-2016) all testified at the Education Committee hearing on behalf of LSUA.
