Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Education Committee on February 4, 2025. The 2025 session has ended.
2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 2161
Independent schools; authorize to contract with certain law enforcement entities to provide officers on school property.
What it does
The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 21-19-49, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO AUTHORIZE MUNICIPALITIES, MUNICIPAL POLICE DEPARTMENTS AND SHERIFFS' DEPARTMENTS TO CONTRACT WITH INDEPENDENT SCHOOL GOVERNING AUTHORITIES TO PROVIDE LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS TRAINING ACADEMY-CERTIFIED POLICE PROTECTION TO SAID INDEPENDENT SCHOOL ON SUCH TERMS AND FOR SUCH REIMBURSEMENT AS THE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL AND THE ENTITY MAY AGREE IN THEIR DISCRETION; TO AMEND SECTION 37-7-321, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO AUTHORIZE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL GOVERNING AUTHORITIES TO EMPLOY SECURITY PERSONNEL THAT HAVE THE POWER OF PEACE OFFICERS UPON THEIR TAKING SUCH OATH AND MAKING SUCH BOND AS REQUIRED OF A CONSTABLE OF THE COUNTY IN WHICH THE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL IS SITUATED; TO AUTHORIZE INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS, SUBJECT TO FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION APPROVAL, TO INSTALL AND OPERATE NONCOMMERCIAL RADIO BROADCASTING AND TRANSMISSION STATIONS FOR EDUCATIONAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES; TO ALLOW INDEPENDENT SCHOOL GOVERNING AUTHORITIES TO ENTER INTO INTERLOCAL AGREEMENTS WITH OTHER LAW ENFORCEMENT ENTITIES FOR THE PROVISION OF EQUIPMENT OR TRAFFIC CONTROL DUTIES; 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 Senate
Sponsor
Its course
January 20 to February 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.
Every action2 actions on 2 days
In the SenateJan 20 to Feb 4 · stopped15 days
EducationJan 20 to Feb 4 · stopped15 days
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.