Bill Text: MS HB445 | 2014 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: School start date; bring forward sections relating to.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2014-02-04 - Died In Committee [HB445 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2014-HB445-Introduced.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2014 Regular Session
To: Education
By: Representative Moore
House Bill 445
AN ACT TO BRING FORWARD SECTIONS 37-13-61 AND 37-13-62, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, WHICH ARE PROVISIONS RELATING TO SCHOOL START DATES, FOR PURPOSES OF POSSIBLE AMENDMENT; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 37-13-61, Mississippi Code of 1972, is brought forward as follows:
37-13-61. The local school board shall have the power and authority to fix the date for the opening and closing of the school term, subject to the minimum number of days which schools must be in session during a scholastic year, as prescribed under Section 37-13-63. However, local school boards are authorized to keep school in session in excess of the minimum number of days prescribed in Section 37-13-63.
SECTION 2. Section 37-13-62, Mississippi Code of 1972, is brought forward as follows:
37-13-62. (1) This section shall be known and may be cited as the School Start Date Act.
(2) Beginning with the 2014—2015 school year, all public elementary or secondary schools under the jurisdiction of the State Board of Education shall begin the new academic year of instruction for students on or after the third Monday in August.
(3) The provisions of subsection (2) of this section shall not apply to the Mississippi School for the Blind and the Mississippi School for the Deaf.
SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2014.
