Mississippi House Bill 1444 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: Failed on March 22 2016 - 100% progression
Action: 2016-03-22 - Died In Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [HTML]

An Act To Create The Financial Transparency In Education Act; To Require Each Local Education Provider In The State To Create And Maintain A Searchable Expenditure And Revenue Website That Includes Detailed Data On All Monies Received And Expended In The Local School District; To Require Each Local Education Provider To Maintain The Data In An Easily Accessible, Searchable And Downloadable Format, And To Post Comprehensive Figures On Total Expenditures And Per-pupil Spending; To Require Each Local Education Provider To Submit The Summary Data To The State To Be Aggregated And Made Available Online; And For Related Purposes.

Financial Transparency in Education Act; create.

Rep. Jeffrey Smith [R]

Rep. Ashley Henley [R]

Rep. Deborah Butler Dixon [D]

2016-03-01 - House - House Passed (Y: 114 N: 7 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-03-22	Senate	Died In Committee
2016-03-17	Senate	DR - TSDPAA: ED To AC
2016-03-11	Senate	Referred To Education;Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency
2016-03-02	House	Transmitted To Senate
2016-03-01	House	Passed
2016-03-01	House	Amendment Failed
2016-02-25	House	Read the Third Time
2016-02-18	House	Title Suff Do Pass
2016-02-08	House	Referred To Education

Type	Source
Summary	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2016/pdf/history/HB/HB1444.xml
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2016/html/HB/1400-1499/HB1444IN.htm
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2016/html/HB/1400-1499/HB1444PS.htm
Roll Call	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2016/pdf/votes/house/0570038.pdf