---
type: "Bill"
title: "Nationally certified licensed school employees; delete caps on nurses and speech pathologists and add athletic trainers for salary supplements."
description: "Nationally certified licensed school employees; delete caps on nurses and speech pathologists and add athletic trainers for salary supplements."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1047"
citation: "Mississippi HB 1047 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations", "Education"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McGee"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 17
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-01-18T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-29T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bbc14a6d-0342-4c11-a18c-fd25b1f0dd0d"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2021/pdf/House_authors/Felsher.xml"
source_hash: "829e5d063caaaa73397b0614a0cf6e484b6ac182ec15d8127bebf4dfb40c79ce"
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 HB 1047 (2021) — Nationally certified licensed school employees; delete caps on nurses and speech pathologists and add athletic trainers for salary supplements.

## 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/2021/html/HB/1000-1099/HB1047IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/pdf/ham/HB1047_H_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 1047** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB1047.pdf)
4. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/HB/1000-1099/HB1047PS.htm)
5. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/pdf/sam/HB1047_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
6. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/HB/1000-1099/HB1047SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage as Amended — **118–3** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **52–0** (pass) · upper
- Concurrence in Amendment From Senate — **116–5** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- McGee — primary (person)
- Felsher — cosponsor (person)
- Gibbs (72nd) — cosponsor (person)
- Haney — cosponsor (person)
- Mangold — cosponsor (person)
- McCarty — cosponsor (person)
- McLean — cosponsor (person)
- Pigott — cosponsor (person)
- Summers — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-18T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Education;Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-28T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: ED To AP
- **2021-02-02T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: AP To ED
- **2021-02-02T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2021-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2021-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2021-02-16T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Education;Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-02T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPAA: ED To AP
- **2021-03-02T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-09T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-09T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2021-03-10T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2021-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Concurred in Amend From Senate
- **2021-03-22T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2021-03-22T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2021-03-29T05:00:00+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/bbc14a6d-0342-4c11-a18c-fd25b1f0dd0d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).