Mississippi House Bill 1317 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: Failed on February 14 2019 - 100% progression
Action: 2019-02-14 - Died On Calendar
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

An Act To Amend Section 37-15-38, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Require Public Community And Junior Colleges, Subject To The Availability Of State Funding, To Waive Tuition And Required Fees For The First Fifteen Semester Credit Hours Taken By High School Juniors And Seniors Through A Dual Enrollment-dual Credit Program; To Limit The Inclusion Of Dually Enrolled Students In A School District's Average Daily Attendance To Those Students Who Have Earned Fifteen Or Less Semester Credit Hours; To Amend Section 37-151-7, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Limit Adequate Education Program Funding To School Districts For Dually Enrolled Juniors And Seniors To The First Fifteen Semester Credit Hours Earned By An Individual Student; To Amend Section 37-17-6, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide That The Statewide Accountability System May Include Consideration Of No More Than The First Fifteen Semester Credit Hours Earned By An Individual Dually Enrolled Student In Calculating A School And School District's Accountability Rating; And For Related Purposes.

Dual enrollment; require community colleges to provide first 15 credit hours free of charge to juniors and seniors.

Rep. Manly Barton [R]

Rep. John Read [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-02-14	House	Died On Calendar
2019-02-05	House	Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub
2019-01-21	House	Referred To Appropriations

Type	Source
Summary	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2019/pdf/history/HB/HB1317.xml
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/HB/1300-1399/HB1317IN.htm
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/HB/1300-1399/HB1317CS.htm