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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Institutions of higher learning/community colleges; require the award of educational credits for military training or service."
+description: "Institutions of higher learning/community colleges; require the award of educational credits for military training or service."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
+legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "SB 2053"
+citation: "Mississippi SB 2053 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Universities and Colleges"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Younger"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 12
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-01-08T06:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2019-03-28T05:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0f5e3e23-9dd9-429d-a73c-e515506d6d95"
+source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2019/pdf/House_authors/Dearing.xml"
+source_hash: "c2f9a5550afede027b53e0f55752f98e982847b5a49d072a92f1d5d6658de1d6"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ms"]
+---
+
+# Mississippi SB 2053 (2019) — Institutions of higher learning/community colleges; require the award of educational credits for military training or service.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **As Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/SB/2001-2099/SB2053IN.htm)
+2. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/SB/2001-2099/SB2053PS.htm)
+3. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/SB/2001-2099/SB2053CS.htm)
+4. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/SB/2001-2099/SB2053SG.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **116–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **51–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Younger — primary (person)
+- Dearing — cosponsor (person)
+- Jackson_(11th) — cosponsor (person)
+- Jackson_(32nd) — cosponsor (person)
+- Jordan — cosponsor (person)
+- Massey — cosponsor (person)
+- McDaniel — cosponsor (person)
+- Simmons_(12th) — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-08T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Universities and Colleges `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-30T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
+- **2019-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
+- **2019-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
+- **2019-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
+- **2019-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Universities and Colleges `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-27T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2019-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
+- **2019-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
+- **2019-03-21T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
+- **2019-03-21T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
+- **2019-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0f5e3e23-9dd9-429d-a73c-e515506d6d95`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).
+