Governor Reeves signs House Bill 1806 into law

During his daily press briefing, Governor Tate Reeves signed House Bill 1806 into law.

In late June, early July, the legislature passed an education appropriations bill that Governor Reeves vetoed parts of because the school recognition program was not funded. The bill pays nearly 24,000 teachers an additional $28 million.

Governor Reeves said since this program has been implemented we have seen a trajectory and more and more of our schools are getting rated A and B. Every school had a teacher that was eligible for this payment. “They worked together as a team to either ensure that their school was an A rated school, a B rated school, or that they were in a school that improved a letter grade. Every school district had a teacher that was eligible for this particular payment. There were schools in the City of Jackson for instance that went from an F to a D or D to a C and we reward those teachers for that great work.”

The state budget year started on July 1^st. A week later, Reeves vetoed parts of the education budget because it didn’t fund a bonus pay plan for some teachers.

House leaders sued the governor over the partial vetoes.