Mississippi Senate Bill 2791 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: Failed on March 6 2012 - 100% progression
Action: 2012-03-06 - Died In Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

An Act To Create The Mississippi Upstart Project To Serve As A Home-based Educational Technology Program To Develop School Readiness Skills Of Preschool Children; To Authorize The State Board Of Education To Contract With A Not-for-profit Organization For Purposes Of Providing Delivery Of The Program For Preschool Children; To Prescribe The Responsibilities And Duties Of The Provider For The Administration Of The Program; To Require That The Contract Provide For One Year Of Funding For The Program With An Option To Extend The Contract For Additional Years Or Expand The Program To A Greater Number Of Preschool Children; To Authorize A Local School To Participate In Mississippi Upstart If The Local School Board Agrees To Work In Cooperation With The Contractor; To Authorize Family Participation In The Program And To Prescribe The Manner Of Soliciting Family Participation; To Authorize The State Board Of Education Or Participating Local School District To Purchase Certain Equipment And Services To Be Used In The Program; To Require An Annual Audit Of The Use Of Funds Used For Mississippi Upstart; To Require That The Audit Requirement Be Included In The Contract; To Require The State Board Of Education To Make An Annual Legislative Report By November 30 Each Year; To Provide That No State General Funds May Be Used To Carry Out The Provisions Of This Act; And For Related Purposes.

Mississippi UPSTART school readiness project; create.

Sen. Terry Burton [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-03-06		Died In Committee
2012-02-20		Referred To Education;Appropriations

Type	Source
Summary	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2012/pdf/history/SB/SB2791.xml
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2012/html/SB/2700-2799/SB2791IN.htm