Mississippi House Bill 8 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Failed on February 5 2013 - 100% progression
Action: 2013-02-05 - Died In Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

An Act To Require A Referendum On The Question Of The Administrative Consolidation Of The Existing Public School Districts In Counties With Two Or More School Districts, One Of Which Has Small Student Attendance; To Provide That All School Districts In Such County Shall Be Abolished And Merged Into A Countywide School District With One Newly Elected County Board Of Education And One Appointed County Superintendent Of Education In The Event The Referendum Is Approved; To Require All Such School Districts To Comply With Administrative Consolidation Orders Issued By The Successor County Board Of Education And The State Board Of Education In Such Counties; To Provide For The Transfer Of Real And Personal Property Of Affected School Districts; To Provide For Employee Contracts In School Districts Subject To Such Administrative Consolidation; To Provide For The Duty To Pay The Outstanding Debt Of School Districts Affected By Such Consolidation; To Provide That Such Administrative Consolidation Shall Not Require The Closing Of Any School Or Facility Except For Abolished Administrative Offices; To Require The Continued Funding Of The Instructional Programs From Local Ad Valorem Taxes In The Abolished Districts In Such Counties At The Same Level As Prior To The Required Consolidation; To Provide For The Rulemaking Authority Of The State Board Of Education Regarding Such Consolidation And The Submission Of The Reorganization To The United States Justice Department; To Provide For An Administrative Consolidation List Prepared By The State Department Of Education; To Amend Section 37-7-103, Mississippi Code Of 1972, In Conformity Thereto; To Amend Section 37-5-7, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide For The New Election Of Members Of The County Board Of Education In The November Election Following The Passage Of The Referendum; To Amend Section 37-5-67, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide For An Appointed County Superintendent Of Education In Such Administratively Consolidated County; To Amend Section 37-15-13, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide That No Change In The Attendance Zone Of Any School District Shall Be Made By A Newly Elected County Board Of Education Which Succeeds To The Territory Of A School District Which Is Administratively Consolidated; To Amend Section 37-57-105, Mississippi Code Of 1972, In Conformity Thereto; And For Related Purposes.

Administrative consolidation of school districts in certain counties; provide referendum on the question of.

Rep. Jeffrey Smith [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-02-05	House	Died In Committee
2013-01-08	House	Referred To Education

Type	Source
Summary	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2013/pdf/history/HB/HB0008.xml
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2013/html/HB/0001-0099/HB0008IN.htm