Mississippi Senate Bill 2003 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
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 Require The State Board Of Education To Use Only Data From The Immediately Preceding School Year To Assess The Accreditation Ranking For The Current School Year For Schools And Districts; To Require The Office Of The State Auditor To Conduct A Focused Accreditation Assessment And Ranking Of Each School And School District In The State Independent Of The State Board Of Education, And To Require That The Department Of Education Submit Any Proposed Changes To The School Accountability Standards And A Statement Of The Estimated Economic Impact To The Appropriations And Education Committees Of The House And Senate And To The Executive Director Of The Legislative Budget Office One Year Before Those Standards Would Become Effective; And For Related Purposes.

Accreditation ratings applied to schools and school districts; SBE use only data from preceding school year.

Sen. Thomas Gollott [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-02-23	Senate	Died In Committee
2016-01-26	Senate	Referred To Education

Type	Source
Summary	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2016/pdf/history/SB/SB2003.xml
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2016/html/SB/2001-2099/SB2003IN.htm