The House and Senate have been at loggerheads much of this legislative session over the school funding formula and government pension system.
Lawmakers work to revive MAEP rewrite, PERS changes as session nears end by Bobby Harrison, Mississippi Today April 26, 2024 Lawmakers are working to revive a proposal to rewrite the long-standing Mississippi Adequate Education Program that provides the state’s share of the basics to operate local school districts. A resolution to revive the measure in the final days of this legislative session was passed by the Senate and is pending in the House.
An original House bill would have dissolved the existing PERS Board and replaced it with a board consisting primarily of political appointees. The House bill caused an uproar among members of PERS, which consists of about 365,000 current government employees, retirees and others who are eligible for benefits when they retire. The Senate killed the House proposal, but later passed a measure stripping away a significant portion of the PERS Board’s authority.
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