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2025 Regular Session

House Bill 1439

School Accountability Dashboard Act; establish to provide parents with critical student performance data.

Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Education Committee on March 4, 2025. The 2025 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.

AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A SCHOOL ACCOUNTABILITY DASHBOARD FOR MISSISSIPPI PUBLIC SCHOOLS TO PROMOTE TRANSPARENCY AND PROVIDE PARENTS WITH CRITICAL STUDENT PERFORMANCE DATA; TO REQUIRE SCHOOL DISTRICTS TO PUBLISH THE SCHOOL ACCOUNTABILITY DASHBOARD BEGINNING WITH THE 2025-2026 ACADEMIC SCHOOL YEAR; TO SPECIFY THE TIMELINE BY WHICH THE INITIAL AND SUBSEQUENT UPDATES TO THE DASHBOARD ARE REQUIRED TO BE PUBLISHED; TO GRANT THE DEPARTMENT A ONE-YEAR PERIOD TO IDENTIFY ANY RELEVANT DATA NOT CURRENTLY COLLECTED TO DETERMINE WHAT SAID DATA IS AND INCLUDE IT IN THE DASHBOARD BEGINNING WITH THE 2026-2027 SCHOOL YEAR; TO REQUIRE THE INFORMATION IN THE DASHBOARD TO BE COMPILED INTO AN EASILY ACCESSIBLE, USER-FRIENDLY SINGLE-PAGE GRAPHIC AND PUBLISHED ON THE MAIN PAGE OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT'S AND THE DEPARTMENT'S WEBSITE; TO REQUIRE THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO ISSUE GUIDANCE AND THE STANDARDIZED DASHBOARD TEMPLATE TO ALL SCHOOL DISTRICTS BY AUGUST 1, 2025; TO REQUIRE THE SCHOOL ACCOUNTABILITY DASHBOARD TO BE ALIGNED WITH THE STATE'S PERFORMANCE-BASED ACCREDITATION SYSTEM AND PRESCRIBE THE MINIMUM DATA METRICS TO BE INCLUDED; TO AMEND SECTIONS 37-17-6 AND 37-17-8, 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

Its course

January 20 to March 4, 2025, 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 action7 actions on 6 days

In the House of RepresentativesJan 20 to Feb 617 days

EducationJan 20 to Jan 299 days

In the SenateFeb 6 to Mar 4 · stopped26 days

EducationFeb 17 to Mar 4 · stopped15 days

Amendments

Each amendment offered, and what became of it.

  • House of Representatives floor amendmentAdopted

    Adopted Feb 6

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 20 – Feb 6

  1. Jan 20Referred to the House committee on Education
  2. Jan 29Reported from committee in the House: title sufficient, do pass
  3. Feb 6Amended in the House
  4. Passed the House as amended

In the Senate Feb 10 – Mar 4

  1. Feb 10Sent to the Senate
  2. Feb 17Referred to the Senate committee on Education
  3. Mar 4Died in committee in the Senate
All 7 actions, as published
  1. Jan 20Referred To EducationHouse of Representatives
  2. Jan 29Title Suff Do PassHouse of Representatives
  3. Feb 6AmendedHouse of Representatives
  4. Feb 6Passed As AmendedHouse of Representatives
  5. Feb 10Transmitted To SenateHouse of Representatives
  6. Feb 17Referred To EducationSenate
  7. Mar 4Died In CommitteeSenate