---
type: "Bill"
title: "Teachers; revise licensure."
description: "Teachers; revise licensure."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 2511"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2511 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["DeBar"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 14
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-02-14T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2020-06-23T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3e234b99-0441-4699-a832-c5640bec65ee"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2020/pdf/House_authors/Barnett.xml"
source_hash: "084d3435286bede5bb8017a565198ab7de71a8c3d02879551096ea8ed3c4edd9"
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 2511 (2020) — Teachers; revise licensure.

## 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/SB2511IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 (Adopted)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/pdf/ham/SB2511_H_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 2511** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB2511.pdf)
4. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/SB/2500-2599/SB2511PS.htm)
5. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/SB/2500-2599/SB2511SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage as Amended — **118–0** (pass) · lower
- Concurrence in Amendment From House — **51–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **51–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- DeBar — primary (person)
- Barnett — cosponsor (person)
- Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Horhn — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson (11th) — cosponsor (person)
- Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Moran — cosponsor (person)
- Norwood — cosponsor (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** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2020-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2020-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2020-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-01T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2020-06-02T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2020-06-02T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2020-06-03T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2020-06-10T05:00:00+00:00** Concurred in Amend From House
- **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/3e234b99-0441-4699-a832-c5640bec65ee`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).