Education

MS - Senator Dennis DeBar, Jr. (R)

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Chairman

MS - Senator Chris Caughman (R)

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Vice-chairman

MS - Senator Kevin Blackwell (R)

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Member

MS - Senator David Blount (D)

Title:

Vice-chairman

MS - Senator Nicole Boyd (R)

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Member

MS - Senator Hob Bryan (D)

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Member

MS - Senator Scott DeLano (R)

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Member

MS - Senator Sally Doty (R)

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Member

MS - Senator Angela Burks Hill (R)

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Member

MS - Senator W. Briggs Hopson III (R)

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Member

MS - Senator Chris Johnson (R)

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Member

MS - Senator David Jordan (D)

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Member

MS - Senator Michael McLendon (R)

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Member

MS - Senator Chad McMahan (R)

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Member

MS - Senator Sollie B. Norwood (D)

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Member

MS - Senator John A. Polk (R)

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Member

MS - Senator Brice Wiggins (R)

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Member

MS - SB2001 Teachers' salaries; provide for increase.

MS - SB2014 Schools; require carbon monoxide detectors in all.

MS - SB2015 Payroll date for school district employees; authorize semimonthly payroll in discretion of local school board.

MS - SB2016 Assistant teachers; increase salaries for.

MS - SB2017 Local school board members; prescribe salary scale based upon school district student enrollment.

MS - SB2018 Civics Test; require passing score for high school graduates and high school equivalency diploma applicants.

MS - SB2019 Dyslexia Therapy Scholarship Program; prescribe standards for participation.

MS - SB2021 Average daily attendance for MAEP purposes; shall include any student sick day.

MS - SB2022 Kindergarten-age children; require compulsory school attendance for all.

MS - SB2023 Assistant teachers; require school districts to notify of nonreemployment.

MS - SB2024 Teachers' salary; implement a four-year phase in to increase to the southeastern average.

MS - SB2025 Department of Education; develop system for schools to report data required by federal law.

MS - SB2062 Kindergarten-age children; require compulsory school attendance for all.

MS - SB2090 School athletic trainers; provide annual salary supplement for those certified through the national certification program.

MS - SB2091 City limits extended by annexation; automatically extends boundaries of municipal separate school district.

MS - SB2094 Education Employment Procedures Law; increase probationary period for newly hired certified employees on phased-in basis.

MS - SB2113 School District System Design Partnership Program; create.

MS - SB2145 Requirements for standard high school diploma; discontinue subject area tests.

MS - SB2146 School Resource Officers; require uniform statewide training program.

MS - SB2147 Assistant teachers/reading instructors; require in each K-3 class.

MS - SB2203 School board members; require uniform election on a phased-in basis.

MS - SB2206 Mississippi Performance-Based-Pay (MPBP) Plan; allow schools to grant enhanced supplements to more experienced teachers.

MS - SB2211 Charter schools; reconstitute authorizer board and clarify funding.

MS - SB2224 School entry health examinations; require in all public schools.

MS - SB2240 Athletics; enact the "Mississippi Fairness Act."

MS - SB2244 Ad valorem tax; exempt one vehicle per teacher in shortage areas, and discount tax on one vehicle per teacher in other areas.

MS - SB2246 Mid-year budget reductions; exempt MAEP funds.

MS - SN2 Nancy Amanda Collins, Tupelo, Mississippi, State Board of Education, term effective immediately and ending June 30, 2028.

MS - SN3 Dr. Jean Allen Lyles (Jean) Young, Petal, Mississippi, Mississippi Charter School Authorizer Board, term effective immediately and ending August 31, 2022.

MS - SN4 William Marlden (Bill) Billingsley, Madison, Mississippi, Mississippi Charter School Authorizer Board, term effective immediately and ending August 31, 2022.

MS - SB2274 Department of Education; authorize to receive donations.

MS - SB2283 School districts; revise employees and administrators subject to conflict-of-interest provisions.

MS - SB2284 Mandatory K-12 computer science curriculum; require State Department of Education to implement.

MS - SB2285 Education standards; replace Common Core with ELA Standards.

MS - SB2286 Early Learning Collaborative Act of 2013; revise funding and specify teaching standards.

MS - SB2351 Mississippi High School Activities Association; require to comply with Mississippi Open Meetings Law to receive public funds.

MS - SB2352 Community schools planning grant program; establish fund.

MS - SB2353 Critical Needs Teacher Forgivable Loan Program; extend repealer on.

MS - SB2354 School employee salary supplements; remove limitation on number of school nurses and language therapists eligible for.

MS - SB2355 School boards; require policy that allows for corporal punishment opt in of students annually.

MS - SB2361 Mississippi Civic Literacy Act; enact.

MS - SB2395 School board members; increase pay.

MS - SB2400 Assistant teachers; provide "C," "D," and "F" districts with additional.

MS - SB2401 School enrollment; allow for children with documentation of a parent's pending military relocation to the state.

MS - SB2412 Mississippi Adequate Education Program; fully fund.

MS - SB2413 Mississippi teacher shortage areas of the state; establish a Teacher Shortage Commission to contract for internet STEM services.

MS - SB2445 Schools; require drinking fountains and water bottle filling stations in new or renovated facilities.

MS - SB2482 Appropriation; Department of Education for statewide school mobile panic button program.

MS - SB2502 Department of Education; require to develop a statewide school mobile panic button program.

MS - SB2503 The Seizure Safe Schools Act; enact.

MS - SB2504 Teachers' salaries; provide for increase and implement plan to fund at the southeastern average.

MS - SB2505 Driver education; authorize active duty members of the Mississippi State Highway Safety Patrol to instruct.

MS - SB2506 Winona-Montgomery School Board of Trustees; revise membership.

MS - SB2507 Critical Teacher Shortage Area License; create alternative license to be issued for educators who teach in designated areas.

MS - SB2508 Provisions of the Mississippi Critical Teacher Shortage Act of 1998; extend repealer on.

MS - SB2509 Failing school districts; extend repealer on.

MS - SB2511 Teachers; revise licensure.

MS - SB2512 Income tax; school boards may certify early learning collaboratives as approved for purposes of the program support contribution credit.

MS - SB2541 State and School Health Insurance Management Board; authorize superintendent of education to name designee.

MS - SB2560 Mississippi Save Our Schools Program; create.

MS - SB2562 School immunization; authorize exemption for religious beliefs.

MS - SB2565 16th section trust interest; authorize districts to spend once loan payments are current.

MS - SB2566 School boards; authorize members to be employed as school bus drivers.

MS - SB2567 Diabetes Care for Mississippi Students Act; enact.

MS - SB2568 Accreditation of schools; allow schools to employ up to 10% nonlicensed teachers to teach in core areas.

MS - SB2570 Teachers; authorize licensure in individual subject areas.

MS - SB2571 Teachers; revise licensure.

MS - SB2572 Office of Early Childhood; establish and prescribe responsibilities.

MS - SB2573 Economic and Academic Need Forgivable Loan Program; create.

MS - SB2574 Department of Education; require central reporting system for federal data.

MS - SB2575 Accreditation of schools; allow schools to employ up to 10% nonlicensed teachers to teach in core areas.

MS - SB2576 Community schools; authorize.

MS - SB2578 Active shooter drills; prohibit telling students and teachers that drill is real.

MS - SB2579 School prayer; require school boards to designate a period of reflection in which prayer shall be allowed.

MS - SB2580 Trauma-Informed Discipline Practices Act; enact.

MS - SB2594 The Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs Act; revise and extend repealer.

MS - SB2823 Occupational licenses; provide for apprenticeships and alternative elective credit.

MS - SB2826 School districts; revise procedures of district-to-district student transfers.

MS - SB2828 Salary supplement; provide to experienced teachers willing to relocate and teach in an "F"-designated school.