Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Education Committee on February 27, 2008. The 2008 session has ended.
2008 Regular Session
House Bill 732
Compulsory school attendance; change birthday cutoff date for five- and six-year-olds to October 1.
What it does
The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 37-13-91, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO INCLUDE IN THE DEFINITION OF THE TERM "COMPULSORY-SCHOOL-AGE CHILD" THOSE CHILDREN WHO TURN SIX YEARS OF AGE, AND THOSE CHILDREN ENROLLED IN KINDERGARTEN WHO TURN FIVE YEARS OF AGE, ON OR BEFORE OCTOBER 1; TO AMEND SECTION 37-15-9, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO CHANGE THE DATE BY WHICH KINDERGARTEN STUDENTS MUST REACH THEIR FIFTH BIRTHDAY AND FIRST GRADERS MUST REACH THEIR SIXTH BIRTHDAY IN ORDER TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR ENROLLMENT IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FROM SEPTEMBER 1 TO OCTOBER 1; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
Sponsors
Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.
In the House of Representatives
Sponsor
Its course
February 4 to February 27, 2008, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.
Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.
Text
Each version as the Legislature printed it.
l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.
What happened
In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the Legislature published it is below.
In the House of Representatives Feb 4 – Feb 27
- Feb 4Referred to the House committee on Education
- Feb 18Reported from committee in the House: title sufficient, do pass
- Feb 27Recommitted to committee in the House
- Died in committee in the House
All 4 actions, as published
- Feb 4Referred To EducationHouse of Representatives
- Feb 18Title Suff Do PassHouse of Representatives
- Feb 27Recommitted to CommitteeHouse of Representatives
- Feb 27Died In CommitteeHouse of Representatives