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2025 Regular Session

Senate Bill 2591

Bid procurement requirement; allow public schools purchasing technology for distribution to be exempt from.

Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Education Committee on March 4, 2025. The 2025 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 31-7-13, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO EXEMPT SCHOOL DISTRICTS FROM CERTAIN BID PROCUREMENT REQUIREMENTS FOR THE PURCHASE OF ELECTRONIC DEVICES SUCH AS LAPTOPS, TABLETS AND COMPUTER PERIPHERALS; 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 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.

Every action6 actions on 6 days

In the SenateJan 20 to Feb 617 days

Accountability, Efficiency, TransparencyJan 20 to Jan 3010 days

In the House of RepresentativesFeb 6 to Mar 4 · stopped26 days

EducationFeb 10 to Mar 4 · stopped22 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 6

  1. Jan 20Referred to the Senate committee on Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency
  2. Jan 30Reported from committee in the Senate: title sufficient, do pass
  3. Feb 6Passed the Senate

In the House of Representatives Feb 7 – Mar 4

  1. Feb 7Sent to the House
  2. Feb 10Referred to the House committees on Education and on Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency
  3. Mar 4Died in committee in the House
All 6 actions, as published
  1. Jan 20Referred To Accountability, Efficiency, TransparencySenate
  2. Jan 30Title Suff Do PassSenate
  3. Feb 6PassedSenate
  4. Feb 7Transmitted To HouseSenate
  5. Feb 10Referred To Education;Accountability, Efficiency, TransparencyHouse of Representatives
  6. Mar 4Died In CommitteeHouse of Representatives