---
type: "Bill"
title: "MAEP; Department of Education required to hold harmless school district from calculating 2020-2021 average daily attendance."
description: "MAEP; Department of Education required to hold harmless school district from calculating 2020-2021 average daily attendance."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 2149"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2149 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["DeBar"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-08T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-18T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/965969bc-d6f0-4db4-b6cb-7299cbf55d65"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2021/pdf/House_authors/Barnett.xml"
source_hash: "4ec8262dfc27baf73266385c691d23fdd84877da39c3c8530b2b7f98bbfc8fd1"
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 2149 (2021) — MAEP; Department of Education required to hold harmless school district from calculating 2020-2021 average daily attendance.

## 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/SB/2100-2199/SB2149IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/SB/2100-2199/SB2149PS.htm)
3. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/SB/2100-2199/SB2149CS.htm)
4. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/SB/2100-2199/SB2149SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **52–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **113–6** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- DeBar — primary (person)
- Barnett — cosponsor (person)
- Barrett — cosponsor (person)
- Blackwell — cosponsor (person)
- Blount — cosponsor (person)
- Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Branning — cosponsor (person)
- Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Caughman — cosponsor (person)
- Chism — cosponsor (person)
- DeLano — cosponsor (person)
- Fillingane — cosponsor (person)
- Frazier — cosponsor (person)
- Harkins — cosponsor (person)
- Horhn — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson (11th) — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson (32nd) — cosponsor (person)
- Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Kirby — cosponsor (person)
- McCaughn — cosponsor (person)
- McLendon — cosponsor (person)
- McMahan — cosponsor (person)
- Moran — cosponsor (person)
- Norwood — cosponsor (person)
- Parker — cosponsor (person)
- Parks — cosponsor (person)
- Seymour — cosponsor (person)
- Simmons (12th) — cosponsor (person)
- Simmons (13th) — cosponsor (person)
- Sparks — cosponsor (person)
- Suber — cosponsor (person)
- Tate — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas — cosponsor (person)
- Turner-Ford — cosponsor (person)
- Whaley — cosponsor (person)
- Williams — cosponsor (person)
- Younger — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-08T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Education `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-13T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2021-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2021-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2021-02-24T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Education `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-02T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-09T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2021-03-10T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2021-03-12T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2021-03-12T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2021-03-18T05:00:00+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/965969bc-d6f0-4db4-b6cb-7299cbf55d65`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).