---
type: "Bill"
title: "Teachers' and teacher's assistants' salaries; provide increase to minimum salary."
description: "Teachers' and teacher's assistants' salaries; provide increase to minimum salary."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 852"
citation: "Mississippi HB 852 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations", "Education"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bennett"]
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/2b8c9bf7-de15-4fbf-8ef7-4da7bda55555"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2021/pdf/House_authors/Bennett.xml"
source_hash: "fa5c6ba0979c4a910865a4d0118391916d5b6a5ae9f467b1ea76112be3e97e8b"
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 852 (2021) — Teachers' and teacher's assistants' salaries; provide increase to minimum salary.

## 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/0800-0899/HB0852IN.htm)
2. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 852** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB0852.pdf)
3. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/HB/0800-0899/HB0852PS.htm)
4. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/pdf/sam/HB0852_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
5. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/HB/0800-0899/HB0852CS.htm)
6. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/HB/0800-0899/HB0852SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **118–3** (pass) · lower
- Concurrence in Amendment From Senate — **119–2** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **52–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bennett — primary (person)
- Foster — 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 - TSDPCS: ED To AP
- **2021-02-02T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPCS: AP To ED
- **2021-02-02T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2021-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `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`
- **2021-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2021-03-08T06:00:00+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/2b8c9bf7-de15-4fbf-8ef7-4da7bda55555`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).