Mississippi Senate Bill 2448 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Failed on March 31 2014 - 100% progression
Action: 2014-03-31 - Died In Conference
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [HTML]

An Act To Provide That In The Leflore County And Greenwood Municipal Separate School Districts There Shall Be An Administrative Consolidation Into One School District To Be Designated As The Greenwood Leflore School District, Which Shall Be A Countywide School District Effective July 1, 2016; To Provide For The Composition Of The Board Of Education Of The New Greenwood Leflore School District; To Direct The State Board Of Education To Administratively Consolidate Any School District Which Does Not Voluntarily Follow The Consolidation Order; To Abolish The Former School Districts Following The Administrative Consolidation And Provide For The Transfer Of School District Assets And Liabilities; To Provide For Execution Of Teacher And School District Employee Contracts And The Preparation Of A School District Budget In The New School District; To Direct The State Board Of Education To Promulgate Regulations To Implement Such Administrative Consolidation; To Provide A Two-year Waiver From Certain Accountability And State Assessment Requirements For The New Student Population; To Amend Sections 37-5-7 And 37-7-103, Mississippi Code Of 1972, In Conformity; And For Related Purposes.

School district consolidation; require in Leflore County and Greenwood.

Sen. Gray Tollison [D]

2014-03-12 - House - House Passed As Amended (Y: 113 N: 5 NV: 4 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2014-02-12 - Senate - Senate Passed As Amended (Y: 38 N: 12 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-03-31	Senate	Died In Conference
2014-03-27	House	Conferees Named Moore,Barker,Guice
2014-03-27	Senate	Conferees Named Tollison,Collins,Smith
2014-03-19	Senate	Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
2014-03-18	House	Returned For Concurrence
2014-03-12	House	Passed As Amended
2014-03-12	House	Amended
2014-03-11	House	Read the Third Time
2014-03-04	House	Title Suff Do Pass As Amended
2014-02-17	House	Referred To Education
2014-02-14	Senate	Transmitted To House
2014-02-12	Senate	Passed As Amended
2014-02-12	Senate	Amended
2014-02-12	Senate	Committee Substitute Adopted
2014-02-04	Senate	Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub
2014-01-20	Senate	Referred To Education

Type	Source
Summary	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2014/pdf/history/SB/SB2448.xml
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2014/html/SB/2400-2499/SB2448IN.htm
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2014/html/SB/2400-2499/SB2448CS.htm
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2014/html/SB/2400-2499/SB2448PS.htm
Roll Call	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2014/pdf/votes/senate/0370012.pdf
Roll Call	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2014/pdf/votes/house/0650019.pdf