---
type: "Bill"
title: "Mississippi School of the Arts; provide for administration and clarify employee hiring procedures."
description: "Mississippi School of the Arts; provide for administration and clarify employee hiring procedures."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 2625"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2625 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education", "Appropriations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Doty"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-01-21T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-03-29T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c6dfb5c1-2931-4f44-b859-c2b1d88b42be"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2019/pdf/House_authors/Dearing.xml"
source_hash: "804203dc7688d9b39b49e76add851d1c33836b3e04ee598c029028144f1cde39"
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 2625 (2019) — Mississippi School of the Arts; provide for administration and clarify employee hiring procedures.

## 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/2600-2699/SB2625IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 (Cmte Sub) (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/pdf/sam/SB2625_S_(Cmte_Sub)_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 2625** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB2625.pdf)
4. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/SB/2600-2699/SB2625PS.htm)
5. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/pdf/ham/SB2625_H_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
6. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/SB/2600-2699/SB2625CS.htm)
7. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/SB/2600-2699/SB2625SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage as Amended — **116–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **51–0** (pass) · upper
- Concurrence in Amendment From House — **52–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Doty — primary (person)
- Dearing — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-01-21T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Education;Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-30T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPCS: ED To AP
- **2019-01-31T06:00:00+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** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2019-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2019-02-14T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2019-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Education;Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPAA: ED To AP
- **2019-03-05T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPAA: AP To ED
- **2019-03-05T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Read the Third Time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2019-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2019-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered (Lamar, Bennett, Roberson)
- **2019-03-14T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Tabled
- **2019-03-14T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2019-03-20T05:00:00+00:00** Concurred in Amend From House
- **2019-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2019-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2019-03-29T05:00:00+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/c6dfb5c1-2931-4f44-b859-c2b1d88b42be`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).