Mississippi House Bill 78 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: Failed on February 23 2016 - 100% progression
Action: 2016-02-23 - Died In Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

An Act To Amend Section 37-17-6, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Prescribe The Nature Of Administrative Sanctions To Be Imposed Upon Public School Districts That Have Their Accreditation Withdrawn For Failure To Meet Accreditations And Accountability Standards; To Limit The Travel Of Superintendents In Affected School Districts To Only That Mandated By Law Or Prescribed By The State Department Of Education; To Limit The Travel Of The Members Of The Local School Board In Affected School Districts To Only That Mandated By Law Or Prescribed By The State Department Of Education, And To Reduce Those Members' Compensation By One-half; To Provide That The State Board Of Education And The Commission On School Accreditation May Recommend That The Governor Declare A State Of Emergency In A School District If Fifty Percent Or More Of The Schools In The District Are Designated As Failing In Any One Year; And For Related Purposes.

School accreditation; impose administrative sanctions upon districts having had accreditation withdrawn by the SBE.

Rep. John Moore [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-02-23	House	Died In Committee
2016-02-08	House	Referred To Education

Type	Source
Summary	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2016/pdf/history/HB/HB0078.xml
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2016/html/HB/0001-0099/HB0078IN.htm