l9n/ Mississippi

2015 Regular Session

House Bill 581

Accreditation rating and accountability and state assessment requirements; require the SDE to waive for two years.

Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Education Committee on February 3, 2015. The 2015 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 37-17-6, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REQUIRE THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO WAIVE ALL ACCREDITATION RATINGS AND ACCOUNTABILITY AND STATE ASSESSMENT REQUIREMENTS FOR EACH SCHOOL DISTRICT IN THE STATE FOR A TWO-YEAR PERIOD, EFFECTIVE WITH THE 2014-2015 SCHOLASTIC YEAR BEING THE FIRST YEAR THAT SUCH WAIVERS SHALL BE APPLICABLE; TO PROVIDE THAT THE ASSIGNMENT OF ACCREDITATION STATEWIDE ACCOUNTABILITY PERFORMANCE CLASSIFICATION LABELS FOR SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL DISTRICTS SHALL BE REINSTATED BEGINNING WITH THE STATE ACCOUNTABILITY RESULTS FOR THE 2016-2017 SCHOOL YEAR AND FOLLOWING; 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

2 co-sponsors

Jerry R. Turner, Tommy Taylor

Its course

January 19 to February 3, 2015, 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.

Every action2 actions on 2 days

In the House of RepresentativesJan 19 to Feb 3 · stopped15 days

EducationJan 19 to Feb 3 · stopped15 days

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 Jan 19 – Feb 3

  1. Referred to the House committee on Education
  2. Died in committee in the House
All 2 actions, as published