Children's Advocacy Commission; create to coordinate and streamline the state's efforts to provide services to children.

HB 379 creates a 17-member Children's Advocacy Commission to coordinate and streamline Mississippi's existing services for children. The commission will map all state and federal funding for children's health, safety, education, and well-being; assess program effectiveness; and recommend merging, continuing, or ending services. It requires all state agencies and local programs providing child services to submit annual itemized lists of their programs, which the Stennis Institute will compile for the commission. The commission must report its findings and recommendations to the governor and legislature by December 1 each year.