l9n/ Mississippi

2025 Regular Session

House Bill 384

State institutions of higher learning; create grant program to assist with endowments to recruit and employ certain professors.

Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Universities and Colleges Committee on February 4, 2025. The 2025 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.

AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT THE MISSISSIPPI DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY SHALL ESTABLISH A PROGRAM TO PROVIDE GRANTS TO STATE INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER LEARNING TO ASSIST SUCH INSTITUTIONS WITH ESTABLISHING ENDOWMENTS FOR THE PURPOSE OF RECRUITING AND EMPLOYING PROFESSORS OF QUANTUM COMPUTING AND PROFESSORS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ENGINEERING; TO PROVIDE AN APPLICATION PROCESS FOR STATE INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER LEARNING THAT DESIRE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE GRANT PROGRAM; TO CREATE THE "STATE INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER LEARNING QUANTUM COMPUTING AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ENGINEERING PROFESSORS FUND" AS A SPECIAL FUND IN THE STATE TREASURY; TO PROVIDE THAT MONIES IN THE FUND SHALL BE DISBURSED, UPON APPROPRIATION BY THE LEGISLATURE, IN THE DISCRETION OF THE MISSISSIPPI DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, TO PROVIDE GRANTS AUTHORIZED IN THIS ACT; 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 10 to February 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 action2 actions on 2 days

In the House of RepresentativesJan 10 to Feb 4 · stopped25 days

Universities and CollegesJan 10 to Feb 4 · stopped25 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 10 – Feb 4

  1. Jan 10Referred to the House committees on Universities and Colleges and on Appropriations A
  2. Feb 4Died in committee in the House
All 2 actions, as published
  1. Jan 10Referred To Universities and Colleges;Appropriations AHouse of Representatives
  2. Feb 4Died In CommitteeHouse of Representatives