Mississippi House Bill 688 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 6-3)
Status: Failed on March 5 2019 - 100% progression
Action: 2019-03-05 - Died In Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [HTML]

An Act To Amend Sections 37-17-6, 37-179-1 And 37-179-3, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Require The State Department Of Education To Acknowledge Student Performance In Schools Within Districts Of Innovation That Administer The Cambridge Assessment Or Other Nationally Recognized Assessment To Determine Student Proficiency For The Purpose Of Assigning School And District Accountability Ratings; To Require The Department To Develop A Procedure For The Acceptance Of The Cambridge Assessment Or Other Nationally Recognized Assessments Used By School Within Districts Of Innovation In Lieu Of The Maap Assessments And Subject Area Testing Program; To Require The Department To Assign Accountability Designations To Schools Within Districts Of Innovation Based Upon Student Performance On The Selected Nationally Recognized Assessment Administered By The School, In Comparison To The Student Performance Cut Scores Used For Each Accountability Designation On The Statewide Assessment System; And For Related Purposes.

Districts of Innovations; require SDE to recognize use of Cambridge Assessment or other nationally recognized assessment for purposes of school accountability designations.

Rep. Nick Bain [R]	Rep. Lester Carpenter [R]	Rep. Dana Criswell [R]	Rep. Jody Steverson [R]
Rep. Jay Hughes [D]	Rep. Brent Powell [R]	Rep. Deborah Butler Dixon [D]	Rep. Kevin Ford [R]
Rep. Oscar Denton [D]

2019-02-12 - House - House Passed As Amended (Y: 107 N: 4 NV: 8 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-03-05	Senate	Died In Committee
2019-02-25	Senate	Referred To Education
2019-02-14	House	Transmitted To Senate
2019-02-12	House	Passed As Amended
2019-02-12	House	Amended
2019-02-12	House	Committee Substitute Adopted
2019-01-31	House	Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub
2019-01-17	House	Referred To Education

Type	Source
Summary	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2019/pdf/history/HB/HB0688.xml
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/HB/0600-0699/HB0688IN.htm
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/HB/0600-0699/HB0688CS.htm
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/HB/0600-0699/HB0688PS.htm
Amendment	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/ham/HB0688_H_(Cmte_Sub)_Amend_01.htm
Roll Call	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2019/pdf/votes/house/0360004.pdf