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2024 Regular Session

House Bill 1019

Expert citizen teachers; provide rate of compensation for those employed in critical teacher shortage areas.

Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Education Committee on March 5, 2024. The 2024 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 37-19-7, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROVIDE THAT INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE LICENSED BY THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AS AN EXPERT CITIZEN AND EMPLOYED IN A SCHOOL DISTRICT THAT IS EXPERIENCING A CRITICAL TEACHER SHORTAGE MAY RECEIVE A MINIMUM RATE OF COMPENSATION BY CREDITING SUCH INDIVIDUALS WITH 3/4 OF A YEAR OF TEACHING EXPERIENCE FOR EACH YEAR OF EXPERIENCE IN HIS OR HER FIELD OF PROFESSIONAL OR VOCATIONAL EXPERTISE; TO PROVIDE THAT SUCH INDIVIDUALS SHALL BE COMPENSATED AT THE SAME ENDORSEMENT LEVELS THAT CORRELATE WITH HIS OR HER EDUCATIONAL DEGREE CREDENTIALS; TO AMEND SECTION 37-3-2, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, IN CONFORMITY THERETO; 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

1 co-sponsor

Zakiya Summers

Its course

February 7 to March 5, 2024, 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 RepresentativesFeb 7 to Mar 5 · stopped27 days

EducationFeb 7 to Mar 5 · stopped27 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 Feb 7 – Mar 5

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