Mississippi House Bill 560 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Failed on January 31 2017 - 100% progression
Action: 2017-01-31 - Died In Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

An Act To Create The Textbook Purchasing Pilot Program For The Sole Purpose Of Purchasing New Textbooks For The Public School Districts In The State, Which Shall Be Administered By The State Department Of Education; To Provide That The Legislature Shall Appropriate A Certain Amount To The State Department Of Education For Fiscal Years 2018 Through 2021 To Be Allocated To Certain Counties Each Year; To Provide That The Funds Received By The Counties Shall Be Allocated Proportionately Among The Public School Districts In The County; To Require The School Districts To Use The Funds Only For Purchasing New Textbooks For The Students Of The Schools In The District; To Provide That The Textbooks Purchased Shall Only Be Physical, Printed, Hard Copy Textbooks, And Shall Not Be Textbooks On A Computer, Tablet, Module Or Any Other Electronic Format; To Provide That If The Legislature Does Not Appropriate The Full Amount Required By This Act Each Year For The Purposes Of The Pilot Program, Then Certain State And Local Educational Officials And Personnel Shall Not Be Authorized To Receive Any Increase In Their Annual Salary Or Other Compensation During The Years That The Pilot Program Is Operational; And For Related Purposes.

School textbooks; create pilot program for purchasing new textbooks and require Legislature to provide funding for.

Rep. Deborah Butler Dixon [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-01-31	House	Died In Committee
2017-01-13	House	Referred To Education;Revenue and Expenditure General Bills

Type	Source
Summary	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2017/pdf/history/HB/HB0560.xml
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2017/html/HB/0500-0599/HB0560IN.htm