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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Professional music therapists; provide for licensure by State Department of Health."
+description: "Professional music therapists; provide for licensure by State Department of Health."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
+legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 2741"
+citation: "Mississippi SB 2741 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Public Health and Human Services", "Public Health and Welfare"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Parker"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 24
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2025-01-20T06:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2025-04-10T05:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d694e997-8a66-4704-af98-4367a5cb1e72"
+source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2025/pdf/House_authors/Barrett.xml"
+source_hash: "a06189dc2d00f73d2e31fa29ae8dc1cbfb3c9daa916fe3552229e84e2b716cd2"
+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 2741 (2025) — Professional music therapists; provide for licensure by State Department of Health.
+
+## 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/2025/html/SB/2700-2799/SB2741IN.htm)
+2. **Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/sam/SB2741_S_Amend_01.pdf)
+3. **Amendment No 2 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/ham/SB2741_H_Amend_02.pdf)
+4. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 2741** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB2741.pdf)
+5. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/SB/2700-2799/SB2741PS.htm)
+6. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/ham/SB2741_H_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
+7. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/SB/2700-2799/SB2741SG.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage as Amended — **48–2** (pass) · upper
+- Adopt Conference Report — **111–1** (pass) · lower
+- Passage as Amended — **109–5** (pass) · lower
+- Adopt Conference Report — **42–3** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Parker — primary (person)
+- Barrett — cosponsor (person)
+- Blackwell — cosponsor (person)
+- England — cosponsor (person)
+- Jackson — cosponsor (person)
+- Tate — cosponsor (person)
+- Williams — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-20T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Public Health and Welfare `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-04T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
+- **2025-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
+- **2025-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Public Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
+- **2025-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
+- **2025-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered (Scoggin, Creekmore IV, Felsher)
+- **2025-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Tabled
+- **2025-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
+- **2025-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
+- **2025-03-20T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Bryan,Parker,Wiggins
+- **2025-03-20T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Creekmore IV,Felsher,Waldo
+- **2025-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
+- **2025-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
+- **2025-03-29T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
+- **2025-04-01T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
+- **2025-04-01T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered (Creekmore IV, Felsher)
+- **2025-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Tabled
+- **2025-04-07T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
+- **2025-04-07T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
+- **2025-04-10T05:00:00+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/d694e997-8a66-4704-af98-4367a5cb1e72`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).
+