Mississippi House Bill 1556 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 5-3)
Status: Failed on June 9 2020 - 100% progression
Action: 2020-06-09 - Died In Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [HTML]

An Act To Create The "comprehensive Career And Technical Education Reform (ccater) Act"; To Amend Section 37-15-38, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide That Dual Credit Career And Technical Education Instructors Shall Not Be Required To Hold An Associate Or Bachelor's Degree; To Amend Section 37-16-17, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Require The State Board Of Education To Provide Notice To All Incoming Middle School And Junior High Students Of The Career Track Programs Offered By Local School Boards; To Require All Students In The Career And Technical Education Track To Take The Act Workkeys Assessment; To Revise The Curriculum In The Career Track Program; To Amend Section 37-3-2, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide That Local Business Or Other Professional Personnel Shall Not Be Required To Hold An Associate Or Bachelor's Degree In Order To Be Granted A One-year Expert Citizen-teacher License; To Amend Section 37-16-3, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Conform To The Preceding Sections; To Amend Section 37-17-6, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide That The Accreditation System Shall Include Student Performance On The Administration Of The Act Workkeys Assessment, Which Shall Be Weighted In The Same Percentage As The Standard Act Assessment; And For Related Purposes.

Career and technical education; revise curriculum, instructor license requirements and certain assessments.

Rep. Philip Gunn [R]	Rep. Donnie Bell [R]	Rep. Jill Ford [R]	Rep. Jeff Hale [R]
Rep. Chris Brown [R]	Rep. Tom Miles [D]	Rep. Orlando Paden [D]	Rep. Otis Anthony [D]

2020-02-25 - House - House Passed (Y: 116 N: 2 NV: 3 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-06-09	Senate	Died In Committee
2020-05-12	Senate	Referred To Education;Economic and Workforce Development
2020-02-27	House	Transmitted To Senate
2020-02-25	House	Passed
2020-02-25	House	Committee Substitute Adopted
2020-02-25	House	Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub
2020-02-17	House	Referred To Workforce Development

Type	Source
Summary	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2020/pdf/history/HB/HB1556.xml
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/HB/1500-1599/HB1556IN.htm
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/HB/1500-1599/HB1556CS.htm
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/HB/1500-1599/HB1556PS.htm
Roll Call	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2020/pdf/votes/house/0500008.pdf