Mississippi Senate Bill 2604 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: Failed on February 4 2025 - 100% progression
Action: 2025-02-04 - Died In Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

An Act To Impose Conditions On A School Board's Authority To Regulate Athletics And Extracurricular Activities And To Expend Funds For Certain Purposes; To Provide For The Creation Of A Special Committee Consisting Of Three Members Of The State Board Of Education And Four Legislative Appointees To Study The Oversight And Regulation Of School Athletics And Extracurricular Activities And To Decide, By January 1, 2026, Whether The Regulation Shall Be Accomplished By A Private Not-for-profit Corporation Created By The Seven-member Committee Or By Any Not-for-profit Corporation Currently Involved In The Regulation Of School Athletics And Extracurricular Activities; To Restrict The School Board's Authority To Pay Funds Under Their Control To Organizations That Currently Regulate School Athletics And Extracurricular Activities; To Prohibit Any Such Not-for-profit Established For The Purpose Of Regulating Public High School Athletics And Extracurricular Activities From Denying Member Schools From Competing Against Nonmember Schools When It Is The Desire Of Said Schools To Compete One Against The Other; To Amend Section 37-7-301, Mississippi Code Of 1972, In Conformity Thereto; And For Related Purposes.

School athletics and extracurricular activities; require SBE to review and recommend revisions for administration of.

Sen. Dennis DeBar [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-02-04	Senate	Died In Committee
2025-01-20	Senate	Referred To Education

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
37	7	301	Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2025/pdf/history/SB/SB2604.xml
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/SB/2600-2699/SB2604IN.htm