Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Public Health and Welfare Committee on February 4, 2025. The 2025 session has ended.
2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 2700
Birth certificate; require designation of sex and prohibit change unless mistake at the time the certificate was issued.
What it does
The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.
AN ACT TO CREATE NEW SECTION 41-57-8, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REQUIRE THAT A BIRTH CERTIFICATE MUST INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, THE CHILD'S NAME, THE CHILD'S PARENTS' NAMES, IF KNOWN, THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE CHILD, THE SEX OF THE CHILD, IDENTIFIED AS MALE OR FEMALE, AS APPLICABLE; TO PROVIDE THAT THE DESIGNATION OF THE SEX OF AN INDIVIDUAL ON A BIRTH CERTIFICATION SHALL NOT BE CHANGED UNLESS A MISTAKE WAS MADE AT THE TIME THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE WAS ISSUED; TO AMEND SECTIONS 41-57-21, 41-57-23, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO CONFORM TO THE PROVISIONS OF THE ACT; 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
Public Health and WelfareJan 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
- Jan 20Referred to the Senate committee on Public Health and Welfare
- Feb 4Died in committee in the Senate
All 2 actions, as published
- Jan 20Referred To Public Health and WelfareSenate
- Feb 4Died In CommitteeSenate