---
type: "Bill"
title: "Failing school districts; extend repealer on."
description: "Failing school districts; extend repealer on."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 2509"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2509 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["DeBar"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-14T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2020-06-23T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/06adf035-0611-4ea9-bc32-1a86f983a9c7"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2020/pdf/Senate_authors/DeBar.xml"
source_hash: "77889c78e10ae645d166b310accbd8c5d8e797478a7b7ed057c14733b1bcf25d"
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 2509 (2020) — Failing school districts; extend repealer on.

## 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/2020/html/SB/2500-2599/SB2509IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/SB/2500-2599/SB2509PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/SB/2500-2599/SB2509SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **90–23** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **50–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- DeBar — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-14T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-05T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2020-03-25T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-28T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-06-10T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2020-06-11T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2020-06-17T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2020-06-17T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2020-06-23T05:00:00+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/06adf035-0611-4ea9-bc32-1a86f983a9c7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).