Mississippi House Bill 1117 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Failed on February 2 2021 - 100% progression
Action: 2021-02-02 - Died In Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

An Act To Require The Minimum Passing Score On Certain Statewide Educational Assessments To Be Lowered, For The 2020-2021 And 2021-2022 School Years Only, Due To The Interruption To Regular Educational Instruction Caused By Covid-19; To Require The State Board Of Education To Decrease The Minimum Score Required On The Act For High School Graduation For Those School Years; To Require Local School Districts To Decrease The Minimum Score Required On Reading Assessments For Students To Be Promoted From The Third Grade For Those School Years; To Amend Section 37-16-3, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Require The State Department Of Education To Decrease Minimum Performance Standards Required On Statewide Assessment Tests For Eighth Grade Students For Those School Years; And For Related Purposes.

Statewide educational assessments; lower minimum passing score on certain tests for 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 school years.

Rep. John Hines [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-02-02	House	Died In Committee
2021-01-18	House	Referred To Education

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
37	16	3	Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2021/pdf/history/HB/HB1117.xml
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/HB/1100-1199/HB1117IN.htm