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2025 Regular Session

House Bill 574

Community schools; authorize implementation under the administration of a district of innovation and to establish a grant fund.

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

What it does

The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.

AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE MISSISSIPPI COMMUNITY SCHOOLS GRANT PROGRAM FOR THE PURPOSE OF ALLOWING SCHOOLS OR SCHOOL DISTRICTS ESTABLISHED AS A DISTRICT OF INNOVATION TO CREATE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS; TO PROVIDE THAT THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION SHALL ADMINISTER THE PROGRAM; TO PROVIDE THAT THE FUNDS SHALL BE DISTRIBUTED TO EACH DISTRICT OF INNOVATION APPROVED BY THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION; TO PROVIDE CERTAIN DISTRIBUTION FORMULAS FOR ALLOCATING THE FUNDS APPROPRIATED FOR THE GRANT PROGRAM; TO AMEND SECTIONS 37-179-1 AND 37-179-3, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO AUTHORIZE THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION TO APPROVE THE CREATION OF DISTRICTS OF INNOVATION; TO DEFINE CERTAIN TERMS RELATED TO "DISTRICTS OF INNOVATION"; TO LIMIT THE INITIAL APPROVAL AND SUBSEQUENT RENEWALS OF DISTRICTS OF INNOVATION TO FIVE-YEAR PERIODS; TO DIRECT THE BOARD TO PROMULGATE ADMINISTRATIVE RULES AND REGULATIONS TO PRESCRIBE THE CONDITIONS AND PROCEDURES TO BE USED BY LOCAL SCHOOL BOARDS TO BE APPROVED AS A DISTRICT OF INNOVATION; TO SPECIFY THE CRITERIA TO BE ADDRESSED BY THE ADMINISTRATIVE REGULATIONS; TO PRESCRIBE THE REQUIREMENTS FOR A DISTRICT TO BE A DISTRICT OF INNOVATION APPLICANT; TO PRESCRIBE THE STATUTORY REQUIREMENTS WITH WHICH SCHOOLS OF INNOVATION WITHIN DISTRICTS OF INNOVATION MUST COMPLY; TO IDENTIFY AREAS IN WHICH DISTRICTS OF INNOVATION MAY REQUEST APPROVAL OF PRACTICES THAT ARE DIFFERENT THAN CURRENT STATUTORY REQUIREMENTS; 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

2 co-sponsors

Fabian Nelson, Kent McCarty

Its course

January 15 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 action3 actions on 3 days

In the House of RepresentativesJan 15 to Feb 4 · stopped20 days

EducationJan 15 to Jan 227 days

Appropriations AJan 22 to Feb 4 · stopped13 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 15 – Feb 4

  1. Jan 15Referred to the House committees on Education and on Appropriations A
  2. Jan 22Reported as a committee substitute from ED to AP in the House: title sufficient, do pass
  3. Feb 4Died in committee in the House
All 3 actions, as published
  1. Jan 15Referred To Education;Appropriations AHouse of Representatives
  2. Jan 22DR - TSDPCS: ED To APHouse of Representatives
  3. Feb 4Died In CommitteeHouse of Representatives