l9n/ Mississippi

2025 Regular Session

Senate Bill 2595

Supplemental pay and loan repayment programs; add salary supplement for school psychologists.

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 A CREATE THE EDUCATIONAL COUNSELOR, PSYCHOLOGIST AND PSYCHIATRIST LOAN REPAYMENT PROGRAM, TO BE ADMINISTERED BY THE MISSISSIPPI POSTSECONDARY FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE BOARD; TO PROVIDE FOR THE QUALIFICATIONS FOR APPLICANTS UNDER THE LOAN REPAYMENT PROGRAMS; TO ESTABLISH FUNDS FOR THE LOAN REPAYMENT PROGRAMS; TO AMEND SECTION 37-19-7, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROVIDE THAT ANY LICENSED SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGIST WHO HAS ACQUIRED NATIONALLY CERTIFIED SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGIST CREDENTIALS FROM THE NATIONAL SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGY CERTIFICATION BOARD, AND WHO IS EMPLOYED BY A LOCAL SCHOOL BOARD OR THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION AS A SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGIST AND NOT AS AN ADMINISTRATOR, SHALL BE ELIGIBLE FOR AN ANNUAL $6,000.00 SALARY SUPPLEMENT, PLUS FRINGE BENEFITS; 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

2 co-sponsors

Nicole Boyd, Bart Williams

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. Referred to the Senate committees on Education and on Appropriations
  2. Died in committee in the Senate
All 2 actions, as published