Bills in the 2025 Regular Session, Senate.
Dennis DeBar, Jr.
Sponsored
Became law3
Vocational education; modify description of programs eligible for payments out of state appropriations.
Public Records Act; exempt school district test security plans for administration of Statewide Student Assessment Program.
Mississippi Burn Care Fund; provide that SBH shall equitably divide funds among all certified health centers.
Passed the Senate8
Financial literacy curriculum; require specific courses in public schools in grades 6-12.
Interim superintendents; modify role when state of emergency is lifted.
School boards; authorize to vote on providing members and their dependents with health insurance paid for by local funds.
County law library; authorize use of money for technological purposes.
Education Scholarship Account Program; make certain changes to.
Educational Facilities Revolving Loan Fund Program; provide for DFA to receive payments on approved loans from.
Education funding; update language, and include grades 7-8 in CTE multiplier for grades 9-12.
School attendance officers; transfer responsibility of employment from MDE to local school districts.
In committee18
Partnership between Energy High School Academy and Vicksburg-Warren and Claiborne school districts; extend date of repeal on.
Ten Commandments and historical documents; require display in public schools and postsecondary educational institutions.
Ad valorem tax increase for schools; require approval by levying authority before school board publishes election notice.
JROTC statewide coordinator; make position comparable to education program administrator or supervisor.
Tim Tebow Act; allow homeschooled children to participate in extracurricular activity within their school district.
Charter school teachers; limit exemption from educational qualifications to programs not receiving grants from MDE.
Convicted offender earned-time allowance; may be used by State Parole Board in setting parole eligibility.
Fantasy contest games; clarify that operators are not illegally participating.
Groceries; exempt from state sales tax, and authorize municipalities to levy sales tax at lower rate.
Mississippi Charter Schools Act of 2013; bring forward.
Public schools; provide for portability between.
Mississippi Securities Act of 2010; create Securities Investor Education Fund for investor education initiatives.
School athletics and extracurricular activities; require SBE to review and recommend revisions for administration of.
State Workforce Investment Board; make technical changes to provisions related thereto.
Dental hygienists; authorize to work under general supervision of dentists in nursing homes and correctional facilities.
Practice of podiatric medicine; provide certain requirements to perform specific surgeries.
Mississippi Student Funding Formula; include grades 7-8 in career and technical education multiplier for grades 9-12.
Fees; revise certain amounts for printing and publication.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 11
2025 First Extraordinary Session · Appropriation; IHL - General support.
2025 First Extraordinary Session · Appropriation; IHL - Subsidiary programs.
2025 First Extraordinary Session · Appropriation; IHL - Alcorn State - Agricultural programs.
2025 First Extraordinary Session · Appropriation; IHL - Mississippi State University - Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station.
2025 First Extraordinary Session · Appropriation; IHL - Mississippi State University - Cooperative Extension Service.
2025 First Extraordinary Session · Appropriation; IHL - Mississippi State University - Forest and Wildlife Research Center.
2025 First Extraordinary Session · Appropriation; IHL - Mississippi State University - Veterinary Medicine, College of.
2025 First Extraordinary Session · Appropriation; IHL - Student Financial Aid.
2025 First Extraordinary Session · Appropriation; IHL - University of Mississippi Medical Center.
2025 First Extraordinary Session · Appropriation; Public Safety, Department of.
2025 First Extraordinary Session · Appropriation; Corrections, Department of.
Passed the Senate · 15
Distinctive motor vehicle license tag; authorize for supporters of Mississippi College School of Law.
Ad valorem tax; specify provisions for determining the true value of rural structures.
Appropriation; IHL - General support.
Appropriation; IHL - Subsidiary programs.
Appropriation; IHL - Alcorn State - Agricultural programs.
Appropriation; IHL - Mississippi State University - Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station.
Appropriation; IHL - Mississippi State University - Cooperative Extension Service.
Appropriation; IHL - Mississippi State University - Forest and Wildlife Research Center.
Appropriation; IHL - Mississippi State University - Veterinary Medicine, College of.
Appropriation; IHL - Student Financial Aid.
Appropriation; IHL - University of Mississippi Medical Center.
Appropriation; Ethics Commission.
Appropriation; Judicial Performance Commission.
Appropriation; Public Safety, Department of.
Tax; cut income and grocery taxes, increase fuel excise tax, and adjust distribution of certain fuel and sales taxes.