Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Education Committee on March 22, 2016. The 2016 session has ended.
2016 Regular Session
House Bill 1531
MS Statewide Teacher Appraisal Rubric (M-STAR); discontinue and require local districts to adopt teacher evaluation system.
What it does
The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.
AN ACT TO REQUIRE THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO DISCONTINUE USING THE STATEWIDE EDUCATOR EVALUATION PROCESS KNOWN AS THE "MISSISSIPPI STATEWIDE TEACHER APPRAISAL RUBRIC (M-STAR)"; TO REQUIRE EACH SCHOOL BOARD TO IMPLEMENT A TEACHER EVALUATION SYSTEM FOR EDUCATORS EMPLOYED IN THE LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT; TO REQUIRE A SCHOOL DISTRICT TO OBTAIN APPROVAL OF ITS POLICY ESTABLISHING AN EVALUATION SYSTEM FROM THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION; TO REQUIRE THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO PREPARE A MODEL POLICY THAT MAY BE ADOPTED BY LOCAL SCHOOL BOARDS; 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
4 co-sponsors
Ashley Henley, Dan Eubanks, Deborah Butler Dixon, Roun McNeal
Its course
February 8 to March 22, 2016, 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 8 – Mar 2
- Feb 8Referred to the House committee on Education
- Feb 23Reported from committee in the House: title sufficient, do pass
- Feb 25Read the third time in the House
- Mar 2Passed the House
In the Senate Mar 3 – Mar 22
- Mar 3Sent to the Senate
- Mar 11Referred to the Senate committee on Education
- Mar 22Died in committee in the Senate