Mississippi Senate Bill 2413 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Failed on March 3 2020 - 100% progression
Action: 2020-03-03 - Died In Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

An Act To Establish A Mississippi Teacher Shortage Commission To Develop A Study On The District By District Needs For Teachers In Mississippi; To Authorize And Direct The Teacher Shortage Commission To Contract With The Mississippi Public School Consortium For Educational Access To Provide Science, Technology Engineering And Math (stem) Education Courses Through Its Internet-driven Model In Order To Provide These Courses In Rural Areas Of The State Where There Are Serious Teacher Shortages; To Authorize The Commission, Subject To Appropriation, To Match Federal And Private Funds Provided By The Consortium For This Purpose; To Amend Section 37-9-81, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Authorize Local School Districts To Contract With Entities With Professional Experience In Instructional Management To Provide Internet Access For Stem Coursework; And For Related Purposes.

Mississippi teacher shortage areas of the state; establish a Teacher Shortage Commission to contract for internet STEM services.

Sen. Briggs Hopson [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-03-03	Senate	Died In Committee
2020-02-13	Senate	Referred To Education;Appropriations

Type	Source
Summary	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2020/pdf/history/SB/SB2413.xml
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/SB/2400-2499/SB2413IN.htm