All Bills - Mississippi 2025 Regular Session
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Mississippi 2025 Regular Session
Mississippi Senate Bill SB2168
Introduced
1/20/25
Refer
1/20/25
Failed
2/4/25
An Act To Require The Demonstration Of Proficiency In Civics As A Condition Of High School Graduation By Requiring Students To Take A Civics Course That Demonstrates Knowledge And Understanding Of The Fundamentals Of The History, Principles And Form Of Government Of The United States; To Require The United States History Curriculum To Include Historical Knowledge Beginning With The Settlement Of Jamestown, Virginia, In 1607; To Amend Section 37-16-7, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Conform; And For Related Purposes.
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Mississippi 2025 Regular Session
Mississippi Senate Bill SB2169
Introduced
1/20/25
Refer
1/20/25
Failed
2/4/25
An Act To Amend Section 37-151-85, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide That Each School Bus Driver Shall Receive An Annual Salary Supplement In The Amount Of $5,000.00; And For Related Purposes.
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Mississippi 2025 Regular Session
Mississippi Senate Bill SB2170
Introduced
1/20/25
Refer
1/20/25
Failed
2/4/25
An Act To Amend Section 37-14-3, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Direct The Office Of Healthy Schools Of The State Department Of Education To Develop A Salary Schedule For School Nurses Based On Their Education And Experience That All School Districts Shall Use When Employing School Nurses, Which Schedule Shall Be The Minimum Salary Amounts Paid To School Nurses; And For Related Purposes.
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Mississippi 2025 Regular Session
Mississippi Senate Bill SB2171
Introduced
1/20/25
Refer
1/20/25
Failed
2/4/25
An Act To Enact The "period Of Quiet Reflection Act"; To Amend Section 37-13-8, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide That In Each Public School Classroom, The Local School Governing Board Shall Require A Brief Period Of Quiet Reflection For Not More Than 60 Seconds At The Opening Of Every School Day; And For Related Purposes.
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Mississippi 2025 Regular Session
Mississippi Senate Bill SB2172
Introduced
1/20/25
Refer
1/20/25
Failed
2/4/25
An Act To Require Each Public School And Postsecondary Educational Institution To Display The Ten Commandments, The Mayflower Compact, The Declaration Of Independence, And Historical, Geographical And Cultural Facts About The State Of Mississippi In A Conspicuous Place In Each Educational Building It Uses And In Each Classroom In Each School Under Its Jurisdiction; To Provide A Historical Context Statement To Be Displayed With The Ten Commandments; To Require The State Department Of Education To Supply The Historical, Geographical And Cultural Facts About Mississippi To Be Displayed; To Specify That This Act Shall Not Require The Governing Authority Of A School Or Postsecondary Educational Institution To Spend Its Funds To Purchase Displays; To Authorize Such Governing Authorities To Fund The Displays Free Of Charge By Accepting Donated Displays Or Donated Funds To Purchase The Displays; To Direct The State Board Of Education To Adopt Rules And Regulations To Ensure The Proper Implementation Of This Act; To Direct The State Department Of Education To Identify Appropriate Resources For Compliance With This Act That Are Free Of Charge, And To List Such Free Resources On Its Website; And For Related Purposes.
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Mississippi 2025 Regular Session
Mississippi Senate Bill SB2173
Introduced
1/20/25
Refer
1/20/25
Failed
2/4/25
An Act To Amend Sections 37-57-104 And 37-57-105, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Require A School Board To Obtain Approval From Its Levying Authority Before Publishing Notice Calling For An Election On The Question Of An Ad Valorem Tax Increase Over 4% For Schools; And For Related Purposes.
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Mississippi 2025 Regular Session
Mississippi Senate Bill SB2174
Introduced
1/20/25
Refer
1/20/25
Failed
2/4/25
An Act To Amend Section 37-16-7, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Require High School Graduates To Pass At Least 60% Of The Civics Portion Of The Naturalization Test Used By The Immigration Services; To Amend Section 37-35-9, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Require High School Equivalency Diploma Applicants To Pass At Least 60% Of The Civics Portion Of The Naturalization Test Used By The Immigration Services; And For Related Purposes.
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Mississippi 2025 Regular Session
Mississippi Senate Bill SB2175
Introduced
1/20/25
Refer
1/20/25
Failed
2/4/25
An Act To Amend Section 37-3-95, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide That The Statewide Coordinator For Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (jrotc) Programs In The Public Schools Shall Hold A Position Comparable To An Education Program Administrator Or Supervisor; And For Related Purposes.
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Mississippi 2025 Regular Session
Mississippi Senate Bill SB2176
Introduced
1/20/25
Refer
1/20/25
Engrossed
2/11/25
Refer
2/14/25
Failed
3/4/25
An Act To Amend Sections 37-17-6 And 37-17-13, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide That, During The School Board's First Year Fully Administering A School District After A Declaration Of A State Of Emergency Is Lifted Or The School Board Is Reconstituted, The Interim Superintendent Shall Continue To Serve Alongside Both The School Board And The School District's Newly Appointed Superintendent In An Advisory And Oversight Capacity And Shall Make Periodic Reports To The State Board Of Education; And For Related Purposes.
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Mississippi 2025 Regular Session
Mississippi Senate Bill SB2177
Introduced
1/20/25
Refer
1/20/25
Engrossed
2/11/25
Refer
2/14/25
Enrolled
3/13/25
Passed
3/18/25
An Act To Amend Section 37-31-13, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide That Payments Out Of State Appropriations To School Districts For Extended Contracts For Vocational Agriculture Education Services And Other Related Vocational Education Services Contributing To Economic Development Shall Be Available Only To Those High Schools Whose Teachers Of Vocational Programs Are Responsible For Certain Programs Of Instruction During Those Days Or Weeks Between Academic Years Or, For School Districts Having Adopted The Extended School Year Calendar, Between Academic Quarters; And For Related Purposes.
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Mississippi 2025 Regular Session
Mississippi Senate Bill SB2178
Introduced
1/20/25
Refer
1/20/25
Engrossed
2/6/25
Refer
2/10/25
Failed
3/4/25
An Act To Amend Section 37-7-301, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Empower All School Boards Of All School Districts To Vote To Provide School Board Members And Their Eligible Dependents With Health Insurance, Provided That Such Insurance Is Paid For With Local Funds And Not State Funds; And For Related Purposes.
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Mississippi 2025 Regular Session
Mississippi Senate Bill SB2179
Introduced
1/20/25
Refer
1/20/25
Failed
2/4/25
An Act To Enact The Tim Tebow Act To Authorize Homeschooled Students To Participate In Interscholastic Extracurricular Activities Sponsored By Or Engaged In By The Public School To Which The Student Would Be Assigned According To District School Board Attendance Policies; To Provide Certain Requirements For Such Students; To Provide That Transportation Of The Student To The Public School Shall Be The Responsibility Of The Parent, Guardian Or Student; To Prohibit A Public School From Discriminating Against Such Student In The Selection Of Interscholastic Extracurricular Team Members; To Provide That Such Participation Shall Be Considered A Privilege And Not A Right, And That Nothing In The Act Shall Be Interpreted To Create A Cause Of Action; To Create The "homeschool Extracurricular Activity Fund" As A Special Fund Within The Department Of Education; To Provide That Districts May Receive $2,250.00 Per Homeschool Student Who Participated In Extracurricular Activities In The Prior Year; To Require The Department Of Education To Report Disbursements To The Office Of The State Auditor; And For Related Purposes.
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Mississippi 2025 Regular Session
Mississippi Senate Bill SB2180
Introduced
1/20/25
Refer
1/20/25
Failed
2/4/25
An Act To Amend Section 37-21-3, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Limit The Exemption Of Charter School Teachers From The Section's Educational Qualification Requirements To Those Teachers Employed In Programs Not Receiving Grant Funding From The State Department Of Education; And For Related Purposes.
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Mississippi 2025 Regular Session
Mississippi Senate Bill SB2181
Introduced
1/20/25
Refer
1/20/25
Engrossed
2/6/25
Refer
2/10/25
Enrolled
4/7/25
An Act To Amend Section 37-11-51, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide That School District Test Security Plans For The Administration Of The Statewide Student Assessment Program Shall Be Exempt From The Mississippi Public Records Act Of 1983; And For Related Purposes.
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Mississippi 2025 Regular Session
Mississippi Senate Bill SB2182
Introduced
1/20/25
Refer
1/20/25
Failed
2/4/25
An Act To Create The Academic Transparency Act Of 2025; To Require Each Public School To List On A Publicly Accessible Portion Of Its Website The Learning Materials And Activities That Were Used For Student Instruction At The School During The Most Recently Completed School Year; To Require A School To List Only The Information Necessary To Identify The Specific Learning Materials And Activities Used For Instruction; To Allow School Boards With Fewer Than 500 Students To Be Exempt From The Requirements Of The Act; To Set Certain Exemptions That The Act Shall Not Be Construed To Do; To Set Certain Requirements Of The Act; To Authorize The Attorney General, County Attorney Of The County In Which An Alleged Violation Occurred, Or A Resident Of The School District To Bring An Action For Injunctive Relief When An Alleged Violation Of The Act Has Occurred; To Require Certain Procedures For The Purchasing Of Learning Materials; And For Related Purposes.