Mississippi House Bill 604 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: Failed on February 2 2010 - 100% progression
Action: 2010-02-02 - Died In Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

An Act To Be Known As The "mississippi Failing Schools Recovery Act"; To Create A New Process For Establishing Charter Schools; To Define Certain Terms Used In This Act; To Require The State Board Of Education To Implement The Charter School Program And The State Department Of Education To Administer The Program Beginning With The 2011-2012 School Year; To Authorize A Charter School To Be Formed By The State Board Of Education Requiring Schools Placed In The Mississippi Recovery School District To Be Converted To Charter Status; To Prescribe The Powers And Duties Of The State Board Of Education As They Relate To The Administration Of This Act; To Prescribe Certain Requirements For Applications For Charter Public Schools; To Prescribe The Period Of Time In Which The Chartering Authority Has To Review And Approve Or Deny An Application For A Charter School Status; To Provide Exceptions To The Approval Of An Application; To Prescribe Certain Procedures To Be Followed By The Chartering Authority Upon Rejection Of An Application; To Stipulate The Conditions Under Which A Charter Expires; To Require The Chartering Authority And The Governing Or Management Board Of An Approved Charter School To Execute A Contract Establishing Academic And Performance Expectations Within 45 Days Of Approval Of The Application And Prescribe What Must Be Contained Therein; To Designate Those Persons Who May Form A Nonprofit Organization For The Purpose Of Proposing A Charter; To Prescribe The Governing Authority To Which The Proposal Must Be Made; To Require The State Board Of Education To Establish A Time Line To Accept Applications For Charter School Status; To Establish The Time By Which A Charter School Must Begin Operation After Final Approval Of The Application For Charter School Status; To Allow For The Resubmission Of Applications That Are Not Approved And The Procedures To Be Followed For Resubmission During The Same Approval Cycle; To Provide That A Chartering Authority Shall Not Approve Any Application Nor Allow Any Charter School To Be Operated By Any Person Without The Requirements Of Certain Experience As Determined By The State Board Of Education; To Require Charter Schools To Be Organized As A Nonprofit Organization; To Prescribe The Provisions To Be Included In Each Proposed Charter Required By The State Department Of Education; To Impose Certain Requirements And Restrictions Upon Charter Schools; To Require Charter Schools To Have A Transportation Plan; To Require Pupils Choosing Not To Attend The Charter School To Be Permitted To Attend The Local Public School That The Pupil Would Otherwise Attend If Not Enrolled In The Charter School; To Provide For The Assignment Of Assets Acquired By Charter Schools; To Prescribe Certain Requirements That A Charter School Must Satisfy In Order To Maintain Its Charter; To Provide That An Approved Charter Is Valid For An Initial Term Of Three School Years; To Provide For The Renewal, Amending Or Revocation Of Charters; To Prescribe Reasons For Revocation Of A Charter; To Provide Immunity From Civil Liability To The State Board Of Education And Its Members; To Provide That The Charter School Is Liable For All Legal Costs For Litigation To Recover Any Public Funds Paid To The Charter School; To Require Charter Schools To Stipulate In Its Application Which Applicable Education Statutes Will Be Applicable To Its Operation; To Prescribe Competency Requirements To Be Demonstrated By Pupils For Graduation From A Charter High School; To Require Charter Schools To Comply With Annual Audit And Budget Submission Requirements Prescribed By Law In Title 37, Mississippi Code Of 1972; To Require The State Board Of Education To Adopt Rules And Regulations For Financial Reporting Of Charter Schools; To Provide For The Employment Of Faculty And Staff Members At Charter Schools; To Grant Exclusive Authority Over All Employment Practices Of Charter Schools To The State Board Of Education; To Permit Employees Of A Local Public School District To Take A Leave Of Absence For The Purpose Of Working At A Charter School Subject To Approval By The State Personnel Board; To Provide For The Procedures Of Requesting, Granting And Returning From That Leave; To Permit Those Employees To Be Eligible And Participate In Certain State-funded Benefit Programs; To Prohibit Unlawful Reprisals Against School District Employees Who Are Involved In An Application For Charter School Status; To Require The State Board Of Education To Submit An Annual Evaluation Of Charter Schools To The Legislature Beginning January 1, 2012; To Provide For State And Local Funding Of Charter Schools; To Establish The Charter Schools Stimulus Revolving Loan Fund In The State Treasury To Provide Support To Charter Schools For Start-up Costs; To Authorize Local School Boards To Refuse To Admit Students Who Have Been Suspended Or Expelled From A Charter School; To Authorize The Continued Operation Of Charter Schools Established Under The Original Charter School Statutes, Notwithstanding The Repeal Of Those Statutes By Operation Of Law On July 1, 2009; And For Related Purposes.

Mississippi Failing School Recovery Act; enact.

Rep. Brad Mayo [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-02-02		Died In Committee
2010-01-12		Referred To Education

Type	Source
Summary	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2010/pdf/history/HB/HB0604.xml
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2010/html/HB/0600-0699/HB0604IN.htm