Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Education Committee on March 4, 2025. The 2025 session has ended.
2025 Regular Session
House Bill 703
School resource officers; authorize local law enforcement agencies to enter into agreement with independent nonpublic schools to provide.
What it does
The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.
AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES WITH PRIMARY LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITY OF ALL PUBLIC AND NONPUBLIC SCHOOLS WITHIN THEIR JURISDICTION TO ENTER INTO MEMORANDUMS OF UNDERSTANDING WITH INDEPENDENT NONPUBLIC SCHOOLS TO EMPLOY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS AS SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICERS (SROS) AT SUCH SCHOOLS; TO SPECIFY THE TRAINING REQUIREMENTS FOR INDIVIDUALS SERVING AS SROS AT INDEPENDENT NONPUBLIC SCHOOLS AND CONSEQUENCES FOR NONCOMPLIANCE WITH TRAINING REQUIREMENTS; TO AMEND SECTIONS 21-19-49 AND 17-25-11, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, IN CONFORMITY THERETO; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
Sponsors
Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.
In the House of Representatives
Sponsor
Its course
January 15 to March 4, 2025, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.
Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.
Text
Each version as the Legislature printed it.
l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.
What happened
In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the Legislature published it is below.
In the House of Representatives Jan 15 – Feb 13
- Jan 15Referred to the House committee on Education
- Jan 30Reported from committee in the House: title sufficient, do pass
- Feb 12Read the third time in the House
- Feb 13Passed the House
In the Senate Feb 14 – Mar 4
- Feb 14Sent to the Senate
- Referred to the Senate committee on Education
- Mar 4Died in committee in the Senate