Bill Text: MS HB971 | 2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

Mississippi House Bill 971 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Community Business Strategies Y-Biz Young Adult Entrepreneurship Pilot Program; establish for Jackson Public Schools.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Failed) 2014-02-04 - Died In Committee [HB971 Detail]

Download: Mississippi-2014-HB971-Introduced.html

MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

2014 Regular Session

To: Education; Appropriations

By: Representative Calhoun

House Bill 971

AN ACT TO REQUIRE THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION TO ESTABLISH THE COMMUNITY BUSINESS STRATEGIES Y-BIZ YOUNG ADULT ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM AS A PILOT PROGRAM WITHIN THE JACKSON PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT FOR THE PURPOSES OF EXPANDING ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND BUSINESS INNOVATION AMONG THE YOUNG ADULT STUDENTS; TO PRESCRIBE THE CRITERIA FOR SELECTING STUDENTS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE PILOT PROGRAM; TO REQUIRE THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO ADMINISTER THE COMMUNITY BUSINESS STRATEGIES Y-BIZ YOUNG ADULT ENTREPRENEURSHIP PILOT PROGRAM; TO CAP THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION FOR THE PILOT PROGRAM AT $75,000.00; TO BRING FORWARD SECTION 37-13-58, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, FOR PURPOSES OF POSSIBLE AMENDMENT; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:

SECTION 1. (1) The State Board of Education shall implement a three-year pilot program in the Jackson Public School District for the creation of the Community Business Strategies Y-Biz Young Adult Entrepreneurship Pilot Program beginning with the 2014-2015 school year, subject to appropriation of funds by the Legislature for such purpose. The purposes of the program are:

(a) To develop standards, policies and procedures to expand entrepreneurship and business innovation in the Jackson Public School District through the creation of a public-private partnership between the University of Southern Mississippi's Southern Entrepreneurship Program and the Mississippi Council on Economic Education's Master Teacher in Entrepreneurship Program;

(b) To initially include two (2) groups of twenty (20) students each from two (2) high schools and/or afterschool programs in the Jackson Public School District;

(c) To provide one (1) weekly session to each group not to exceed thirty (30) afterschool sessions consisting of two- to three-hour instruction and training in the areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics; and

(d) To provide an optional two- to three-week summer program, subject to the availability of funds.

(2) The Community Business Strategies Y-Biz Young Adult Entrepreneurship Pilot Program described in this section shall select students to participate in the program reflective of the demographics of the student population enrolled in the selected pilot schools. The department shall give preference to schools that express a desire to participate in the pilot program.

(3) The State Department of Education shall develop policies and procedures to administer the Community Business Strategies Y-Biz Young Adult Entrepreneurship Pilot Program.

(4) Subject to legislative funding, the annual appropriation for the implementation, support and administration of the pilot program shall not exceed Seventy-five Thousand Dollars ($75,000.00). The State Department of Education shall administer the funds under the direction State Board of Education to the school district. In its administrative oversight of the pilot program, the department also shall develop and implement an evaluation system, under the direction of the State Board of Education, that will assess the efficiency and effectiveness of the Community Business Strategies Y-Biz Young Adult Entrepreneurship Pilot Program.

SECTION 2. Section 37-13-58, Mississippi Code of 1972, is brought forward as follows:

37-13-58. (1) The State Department of Education is hereby designated as the state agency responsible for the administration and supervision of the career education concept as an educational innovation in the State of Mississippi. It is the intent of the Legislature that all funds made available to the State of Mississippi, for the purpose of enhancing career education, be administered by the State Department of Education.

(2) Pursuant to the provisions of subsection (1) of this section, the State Department of Education is hereby authorized to establish an office of career education within the framework of the State Department of Education for the purpose of developing standards, procedures and criteria for the administration and supervision of a statewide program of career education in grades one through twelve. The State Department of Education, through the office of career education, shall assume the further responsibility for promoting a statewide effort designed to prepare local school faculties and staffs to incorporate the career education concept into their local educational programs.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2014.