l9n/ Mississippi

2025 Regular Session

Senate Bill 2468

Free to Speak Law; enact.

Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Education Committee on February 4, 2025. The 2025 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.

AN ACT TO ENACT THE FREE TO SPEAK LAW; TO DEFINE TERMS; TO PROVIDE THAT AN EMPLOYEE OF A PUBLIC SCHOOL, COMMUNITY COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY SHALL NOT ADDRESS AN UNEMANCIPATED MINOR STUDENT BY A NAME OTHER THAN THE STUDENT'S LEGAL NAME OR BY A PRONOUN OR TITLE THAT IS INCONSISTENT WITH THE STUDENT'S SEX WITHOUT THE WRITTEN PERMISSION OF A STUDENT'S PARENT OR GUARDIAN; TO PROVIDE THAT AN EMPLOYEE OF A PUBLIC SCHOOL, COMMUNITY COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY, SHALL NOT BE SUBJECT TO AN ADVERSE EMPLOYMENT ACTION FOR DECLINING TO ADDRESS A PERSON USING A NAME OTHER THAN THE PERSON'S LEGAL NAME OR BY A PRONOUN OR TITLE THAT IS INCONSISTENT WITH THE PERSON'S SEX OR FOR DECLINING TO IDENTIFY HIS OR HER PRONOUNS; TO PROVIDE THAT A STUDENT OF A PUBLIC SCHOOL, COMMUNITY COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY SHALL NOT BE SUBJECT TO ANY DISCIPLINARY ACTION FOR DECLINING TO ADDRESS A PERSON USING A NAME OTHER THAN THE PERSON'S LEGAL NAME OR BY A PRONOUN OR TITLE THAT IS INCONSISTENT WITH THE PERSON'S SEX OR FOR DECLINING TO IDENTIFY HIS OR HER PRONOUNS. 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

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.

In the Senate Jan 20 – Feb 4

  1. Jan 20Referred to the Senate committees on Education and on Judiciary, Division A
  2. Feb 4Died in committee in the Senate
All 2 actions, as published
  1. Jan 20Referred To Education;Judiciary, Division ASenate
  2. Feb 4Died In CommitteeSenate