---
type: "Bill"
title: "Athletics; provide that schools designate teams by biological sex."
description: "Athletics; provide that schools designate teams by biological sex."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 2536"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2536 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Accountability", "Efficiency", "Transparency", "Universities and Colleges"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hill"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-18T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-11T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b5603aaf-5e95-4c1f-a15b-fbf8c1bb030e"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2021/pdf/House_authors/Barrett.xml"
source_hash: "f47566cfb759fea2a840bff83c719a1eff7ea4e573d4011573e8236c67f1b67f"
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 2536 (2021) — Athletics; provide that schools designate teams by biological sex.

## 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/2500-2599/SB2536IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 (Cmte Sub) (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/pdf/sam/SB2536_S_(Cmte_Sub)_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/SB/2500-2599/SB2536PS.htm)
4. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/SB/2500-2599/SB2536CS.htm)
5. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/SB/2500-2599/SB2536SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage as Amended — **34–9** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **81–28** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hill — primary (person)
- Barrett — cosponsor (person)
- Branning — cosponsor (person)
- Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Caughman — cosponsor (person)
- Chism — cosponsor (person)
- DeLano — cosponsor (person)
- England — cosponsor (person)
- Fillingane — cosponsor (person)
- McCaughn — cosponsor (person)
- McDaniel — cosponsor (person)
- McLendon — cosponsor (person)
- McMahan — cosponsor (person)
- Parks — cosponsor (person)
- Seymour — cosponsor (person)
- Sojourner — cosponsor (person)
- Sparks — cosponsor (person)
- Suber — cosponsor (person)
- Tate — cosponsor (person)
- Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Whaley — cosponsor (person)
- Wiggins — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-18T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Universities and Colleges;Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-28T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPCS: UC To AC
- **2021-02-02T06:00:00+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** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2021-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2021-02-22T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2021-02-26T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-01T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-03T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2021-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2021-03-05T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2021-03-05T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2021-03-11T06:00:00+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/b5603aaf-5e95-4c1f-a15b-fbf8c1bb030e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).