Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Education Committee on March 2, 2021. The 2021 session has ended.
2021 Regular Session
Senate Bill 2678
Computer science curriculum; require State Department of Education to implement in K-12 public schools.
What it does
The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.
AN ACT TO CREATE THE MISSISSIPPI COMPUTER SCIENCE AND CYBER EDUCATION EQUALITY ACT; TO AUTHORIZE AND DIRECT THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO IMPLEMENT A MANDATORY K-12 COMPUTER SCIENCE CURRICULUM BASED ON THE MISSISSIPPI COLLEGE AND CAREER-READINESS STANDARDS FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE, WHICH INCLUDES INSTRUCTION IN, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, COMPUTATIONAL THINKING, CYBER-RELATED, PROGRAMMING, CYBER SECURITY, DATA SCIENCE, ROBOTICS AND OTHER COMPUTER SCIENCE AND CYBER-RELATED CONTENT; TO PRESCRIBE MINIMUM COMPONENTS OF THE CURRICULUM AT EACH GRADE LEVEL; AND TO PROVIDE FOR TEACHER TRAINING AS NEEDED AT ALL GRADE LEVELS; 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 Senate
Sponsor
Its course
January 18 to March 2, 2021, 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.
Amendments
Each amendment offered, and what became of it.
Senate floor amendmentPending
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 Senate Jan 18 – Feb 10
- Jan 18Referred to the Senate committee on Education
- Jan 27Reported from committee in the Senate: title sufficient, do pass as a committee substitute
- Feb 10Committee substitute adopted in the Senate
- Passed the Senate
In the House of Representatives Feb 11 – Mar 2
- Feb 11Sent to the House
- Feb 24Referred to the House committee on Education
- Mar 2Died in committee in the House