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MS Code § 37-181-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 181 - Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs Act|§ 37-181-3. Definitions

 The terms used in this chapter shall have the meanings ascribed herein, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:   "Program" means a five-year pilot program to implement the Education Scholarship Account (ESA) program created in this chapter.   "Eligible student" means any student who has had an active Individualized Education Program (IEP) within the past five (5) years.   "Parent" means a resident of this state who is a parent, legal guardian, custodian or other person with the authority to act on behalf of the eligible student.   "Department" means the State Department of Education.   "Home school district" means the public school district in which the student resides.   "Eligible school" means a nonpublic school that has enrolled a participating student. An eligible school must be accredited by a state or regional accrediting agency or possess a provisional letter of accreditation from a state or regional accrediting agency or be approved/licensed by the State Department of Education. An eligible school does not include a home instruction program under Section 37-13-91, Mississippi Code of 1972.   "Tutor" means a person who is certified or licensed by a state, regional, or national certification or licensing organization or who has earned a valid teacher's license or who has experience teaching at an eligible postsecondary institution.   "Postsecondary institution" means a community college, college, or university accredited by a state, regional or national accrediting organization.   "Educational service provider" means an eligible school, tutor, or other person or organization that provides education-related services and products to participating students.
MS Code § 37-181-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 181 - Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs Act|§ 37-181-7. Funding of Education Scholarship Accounts; approval of eligible students for program participation to be on a phased-in basis

  The ESA program created in this chapter shall be limited to five hundred (500) students in the school year 2015-2016, with new enrollment limited to five hundred (500) additional students each year thereafter. Subject to appropriation from the General Fund, each student's ESA shall be funded at Six Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($6,500.00) for school year 2015-2016. For each subsequent year, this amount shall increase or decrease by the same proportion as the base student cost under Section 37-151-7(1)(b) is increased or decreased.   Subject to appropriation, eligible students shall be approved for participation in the program as follows:   Until participation in the program reaches fifty percent (50%) of the annual enrollment limits in subsection (1) of this section, students shall be approved on a first-come, first-served basis, with applications being reviewed on a rolling basis;   After participation reaches fifty percent (50%) of the annual enrollment limits in subsection (1) of this section, the department shall set annual application deadlines for the remaining number of available ESAs and begin to maintain a waiting list of eligible students. If the number of eligible students who apply for the program exceeds the remaining number of ESAs available, the department shall fill the available spaces using a random selection process that gives preference to students with an active Individualized Education Program (IEP); and   Participating students who remain eligible for the program are automatically approved for participation for the following year and are not subject to the random selection process.     No funds for an ESA may be expended from the Mississippi Adequate Education Program, nor shall any school district be required to provide funding for an ESA.
MS Code § 37-181-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 181 - Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs Act|§ 37-181-9. Responsibilities of department

  The department shall create a standard form that parents of students submit to establish their student's eligibility for an Education Scholarship Account. The department shall ensure that the application is readily available to interested families through various sources, including the department's website and the copy of procedural safeguards annually given to parents.   The department shall provide parents of participating students with a written explanation of the allowable uses of Education Scholarship Accounts, the responsibilities of parents and the duties of the department. This information shall also be made available on the department's website.   The department shall annually notify all students with an IEP of the existence of the program and shall ensure that lower-income families are made aware of their potential eligibility.   The department may deduct an amount up to a limit of six percent (6%) from appropriations used to fund Education Scholarship Accounts to cover the costs of overseeing the funds and administering the program.     The department shall make a determination of eligibility, and shall approve the application, within twenty-one (21) business days of receiving an application for participation in the program, subject to the provisions of Section 37-181-3(b).   The department shall provide for a procedure that children with a ruling of hearing impairment or children suspected of a hearing loss shall receive a comprehensive educational assessment which may include the areas of cognitive development, language/speech, audiological and academic achievement from the state-funded Mississippi Assistance Center for Hearing Loss. Children with a ruling of visual impairment or children suspected of a visual impairment shall receive a comprehensive low vision evaluation from the state-funded Low Vision Clinic.     The home school district shall provide the parent of a participating student with a complete copy of the student's school records, while complying with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (20 USCS Section 1232(g)). The record shall be provided no later than thirty (30) days after a parent signs an agreement to participate in the program.   The State Board of Education may contract with a qualified nonprofit organization with expertise and training in working with parents to educate children with disabilities to administer the program.
MS Code § 37-181-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 181 - Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs Act|§ 37-181-11. Adoption of rules and policies for administration of program; development of system for payment of benefits; prevention of fraud

  To ensure that funds are spent appropriately, the State Department of Education shall adopt rules and policies necessary for the administration of the program, including the auditing of Education Scholarship Accounts, and shall conduct or contract for random audits throughout the year.     The department or qualified nonprofit shall develop a system for payment of benefits, including, but not limited to, allowing educational service providers to invoice the department or designated nonprofit for qualified expenses consistent with Section 37-181-5(2), or allowing parents to seek reimbursement for qualified expenses consistent with Section 37-181-5(2).   The department or qualified nonprofit may make payments to educational service providers or reimbursement to parents via check or warrant or electronic funds transfer or any other means of payment deemed to be commercially viable or cost-effective.   The department may also establish by rule that some payments to educational service providers will be made on a quarterly basis, rather than an annual basis, if the educational services will be rendered over an extended period of time.     The department shall adopt a process for removing educational service providers that defraud parents and for referring cases of fraud to law enforcement.   The department shall establish or contract for the establishment of an online anonymous fraud reporting service.   The department shall establish or contract for the establishment of an anonymous telephone hotline for fraud reporting.
MS Code § 37-181-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 181 - Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs Act|§ 37-181-13. PEER to prepare biannual report on sufficiency of funds for Education Scholarship Accounts

  The Joint Legislative Committee on Performance Evaluation and Expenditure Review (PEER) shall prepare a biannual report, beginning in 2018 and every two (2) years thereafter, assessing the sufficiency of funding for Education Scholarship Accounts and recommending any suggested changes in state law or policy necessary to improve the program.   The report shall assess:   The level of participating students' satisfaction with the program;   The level of parental satisfaction with the program;   Student performance on nationally standardized norm-referenced achievement tests for those participating students whose parents have requested participation in such tests;   Student performance on Advanced Placement examinations or similar courses and any examinations related to college or university admission;   The high school graduation rates and college acceptance rates of participating students;   The percentage of funds used for each qualifying expense identified in Section 37-181-5(2);   The fiscal impact to the state and home school districts of the program, which must consider both the impact on revenue and the impact on expenses. Furthermore, the fiscal savings associated with students departing public schools must be explicitly quantified, even if the public school losing the student(s) does not reduce its spending accordingly.     The report shall:   Apply appropriate analytical and behavioral science methodologies to ensure public confidence in the study; and   Protect the identity of participating students and schools by, among other things, keeping anonymous all disaggregated data.     PEER may accept grants to assist in funding the study.   PEER shall provide the Legislature with a final copy of the evaluation of the program before December 31, 2018. At the same time, the study shall also be placed in a prominent location on the PEER website.   PEER must make its data and methodology available for public review while complying with the requirements of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 USCS Section 1232(g)).
MS Code § 37-181-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 181 - Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs Act|§ 37-181-15. Obligations of schools to become and remain eligible

 To ensure that students are treated fairly and kept safe, all eligible schools shall:   Comply with the nondiscrimination policies set forth in 42 USCS 1981;   Prior to a participating student's application for enrollment, provide parents with details of the school's programs, qualifications, experience, and capacities to serve students with special needs;   Comply with all health and safety laws or codes that apply to nonpublic schools;   Hold a valid occupancy permit if required by their municipality;   Have no public record of fraud or malfeasance;   Offer participating students the option of taking a nationally standardized norm-referenced achievement test;   Conduct criminal background checks on employees. The eligible school then shall:   Exclude from employment any person not permitted by state law to work in a nonpublic school; and   Exclude from employment any person who might reasonably pose a threat to the safety of students.
MS Code § 37-181-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 181 - Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs Act|§ 37-181-17. Education Scholarship Account program does not expand state regulatory authority or impose additional regulation of schools participating in program

  An eligible nonpublic school is autonomous and not an agent of the state or federal government and therefore:   The State Department of Education or any other government agency shall not in any way regulate the educational program of a nonpublic school, postsecondary institution or educational service provider that accepts funds from the parent of a participating student;   The creation of the Education Scholarship Account program does not expand the regulatory authority of the state, its officers, or any school district to impose any additional regulation of nonpublic schools, postsecondary institutions or educational service providers beyond those necessary to enforce the requirements of the program; and   Eligible schools, postsecondary institutions and educational service providers shall be given the maximum freedom to provide for the educational needs of their students without governmental control. No eligible school, postsecondary institution or educational service provider shall be required to alter its creed, practices, admission policies or curriculum in order to accept participating students.     In any legal proceeding challenging the application of this chapter to an eligible school, postsecondary institution or educational service provider the state bears the burden of establishing that the law is necessary and does not impose any undue burden on the eligible school, postsecondary institution or educational service provider.
MS Code § 37-181-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 181 - Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs Act|§ 37-181-19. Sources of funding of Education Scholarship Accounts

 The State Department of Education may receive and expend contributions from any public or private source to fund ESAs for participating students.
MS Code § 37-181-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 181 - Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs Act|§ 37-181-21. Severability

 If any provision of this law or its application is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of this law which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application and to this end the provisions of this law are severable.
MS Code § 39-1-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 39 - Libraries, Arts, Archives and History|Chapter 1 - State Law Library; Legislative Reference Bureau|§ 39-1-1. State law library

  There shall be a State Library which shall render law library services to the Supreme Court and other state courts, to state officials and to the general public.   The State Library shall be under the supervision and control of the Mississippi Supreme Court and the court shall be empowered to promulgate policies and procedures necessary to the efficient operation of the Library.
MS Code § 39-1-35 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 39 - Libraries, Arts, Archives and History|Chapter 1 - State Law Library; Legislative Reference Bureau|§ 39-1-35. Legislative reference bureau

 There is hereby created a legislative reference bureau, for the use of the members of the legislature, the governor, and the various departments, institutions and agencies of this state, as well as for a limited service for such citizens of this state as may desire to avail themselves of its reference facilities. The legislative reference bureau shall be under the joint jurisdiction of the house management committee and the senate contingent expense committee of the legislature.   The purpose of the said legislative reference bureau shall be:   To assist the legislature of this state in the proper performance of its constitutional functions by providing its members with impartial and accurate information and reports concerning the legislative problems which come before them, and by providing digests showing the practices of other states and of foreign nations in dealing with similar problems;   To secure information for the legislators of this state by cooperating with the legislative reference services in other states, and with the interstate reference bureau maintained by the American legislators' association and by the council of state governments;   To furnish the members of the legislature of this state, copies of the legislation of other states, uniform laws, model bills, textbooks on the preparation of legislative measures, and such other information and material as may be of value to them in the preparation of bills for introduction into the legislature of this state.   The legislative reference bureau shall have a director, who shall be hired jointly by the house management committee and the senate contingent expense committee, and the duties of the director shall be prescribed jointly by the house management committee and the senate contingent expense committee.   The legislative reference bureau shall be maintained out of the contingent funds of each house of the legislature, with an equal amount to be contributed by each house.
MS Code § 39-7-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 39 - Libraries, Arts, Archives and History|Chapter 7 - Antiquities|§ 39-7-1. Short title

 This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as the "Antiquities Law of Mississippi."
MS Code § 39-7-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 39 - Libraries, Arts, Archives and History|Chapter 7 - Antiquities|§ 39-7-3. Declaration of public policy

 It is hereby declared to be the public policy and in the public interest of the State of Mississippi to locate, protect, and preserve all sites, objects, buildings, shipwrecks, and locations of historical, archaeological, or architectural significance, including, but not limited to historically or architecturally significant buildings, structures relating to significant engineering accomplishments, prehistoric and historical American Indian or aboriginal campsites, dwellings, and habitation sites, archaeological sites of every character, treasure imbedded in the earth, sunken or abandoned ships and wrecks of the sea or any part or the contents thereof, maps, records, documents, books, artifacts, and implements of culture in any way related to the inhabitants, prehistory, history, natural history, government, or culture in, on or under any of the lands, tidelands, submerged lands, and bed of the sea within the jurisdiction of the State of Mississippi.
MS Code § 39-7-4 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 39 - Libraries, Arts, Archives and History|Chapter 7 - Antiquities|§ 39-7-4. Definitions

 For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply:   "Historical significance" means that quality or qualities associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of state, local or national history, or that quality or qualities associated with the lives of persons significant in local, state or national history.   "Architectural significance" means the qualities which embody the distinctive characteristics of type, period or method of construction, or that represent the work of a master, or that possess high artistic value.   "Archeological significance" means possessing the quality or qualities which have yielded, or may be likely to yield, information important in Mississippi prehistory or history.   "Department" means the Mississippi Department of Archives and History.   "Board" means the board of trustees of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History.   "Agency" means any administrative division of the State of Mississippi, its counties, cities or political subdivisions thereof.   "Restoration" means the returning of an object, building, structure or site to a prior condition or to an original historic appearance.
MS Code § 39-7-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 39 - Libraries, Arts, Archives and History|Chapter 7 - Antiquities|§ 39-7-5. Administration of chapter; inspection of record of proceedings

 The authority to administer the provisions of this chapter is vested in the board of trustees of the department of archives and history, hereinafter referred to as the board. A record of the board's proceedings under this chapter shall be kept, and shall be subject to inspection by any citizen of Mississippi desiring to make an examination in the presence of a member of the board or an authorized employee of the department of archives and history.
MS Code § 39-7-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 39 - Libraries, Arts, Archives and History|Chapter 7 - Antiquities|§ 39-7-7. General duties of board of trustees of department of archives and history

 The duties of the board shall be to determine the site of and to designate Mississippi landmarks; to remove from such designation certain of such sites as hereinafter provided; to contract or otherwise provide for the discovery and salvage operations herein covered; to consider the requests for and issue the permits hereinafter provided for; and to protect and preserve the archaeological, historical and architectural resources of the State of Mississippi. The board shall be the legal custodian of all items hereinafter described which have been recovered and retained by the State of Mississippi, and shall maintain an inventory of such items showing the description and depository thereof.
MS Code § 39-7-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 39 - Libraries, Arts, Archives and History|Chapter 7 - Antiquities|§ 39-7-9. Shipwrecks and buried treasure designated Mississippi landmarks and sole property of state

 All sunken or abandoned ships and wrecks of the sea, and any part or the contents thereof, and all treasure imbedded in the earth, located in, on or under the surface of lands belonging to the State of Mississippi, including its tidelands, submerged lands and the beds of its rivers and the sea within the jurisdiction of the State of Mississippi are hereby declared to be Mississippi landmarks and are the sole property of the State of Mississippi and may not be taken, altered, damaged, destroyed, salvaged or excavated without a contract or permit of the board.