MS HB566 | 2025 | Regular Session
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: Introduced on January 15 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-01-15 - Referred To Education
Pending: House Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]
Status: Introduced on January 15 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-01-15 - Referred To Education
Pending: House Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]
Summary
An Act To Create The Mental Awareness Program For Schools; To Amend Section 37-3-89, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Require Mental Awareness And Trauma-informed Approaches In Educator Preparation Programs; To Define Trauma-informed Approaches; To Amend Section 37-9-79, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide That Public School Districts And Public Charter Schools Shall Have At Least One School Counselor Or Mental Health Services Provider Per 250 Students; To Authorize Underfunded And Understaffed Schools To Employ One School Counselor To Service All The Schools In The Employing School District; To Provide For The Distribution Of Time And Duties Within Such Districts; To Require School Counselors Or School-based Mental Health Services Providers To Create A Trauma-informed Team For Each School; To Require School Districts And Public Charter Schools To Report The Number And Placement Of School Counselors In The District To The Department Of Education; To Authorize School Districts To Enter Into A Memorandum Of Agreement With A Nationally Recognized Social Work Consortium And Certain State Institutions Of Higher Learning To Place Master's Level Graduate Students Into Schools As School Counselors Under A Supervised Internship Program; To Create New Section 37-9-80, Mississippi Code Of 1972, Which Requires The Department Of Education, In Collaboration With The Department Of Mental Health, To Create A Toolkit To Assist Schools In Implementing Trauma-informed Approaches; And For Related Purposes.
Title
"Mental Awareness Program for School Act"; enact to require schools to provide mental health service providers and certain trauma-in-formal training.
Sponsors
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-01-15 | House | Referred To Education |
Code Citations
| Chapter | Article | Section | Citation Type | Statute Text |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 37 | 3 | 89 | Amended Code | See Bill Text |
| 37 | 9 | 79 | Amended Code | See Bill Text |
Mississippi State Sources
| Type | Source |
|---|---|
| Summary | https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2025/pdf/history/HB/HB0566.xml |
| Text | https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/0500-0599/HB0566IN.htm |
