---
type: "Bill"
title: "Critical Race Theory; prohibit."
description: "Critical Race Theory; prohibit."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 2113"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2113 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education", "Universities and Colleges"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McLendon"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-01-12T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-03-14T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9f5370fe-00a8-4d55-9bbf-b3276dd7f49f"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2022/pdf/House_authors/Blackwell.xml"
source_hash: "ed3c8eb499fa329c4902165aed5d9eedcddb418395258fde4c05c3040a355e5a"
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 2113 (2022) — Critical Race Theory; prohibit.

## 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/2022/html/SB/2100-2199/SB2113IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/SB/2100-2199/SB2113PS.htm)
3. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/SB/2100-2199/SB2113CS.htm)
4. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/SB/2100-2199/SB2113SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **75–43** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **32–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- McLendon — primary (person)
- Blackwell — cosponsor (person)
- Branning — cosponsor (person)
- Caughman — cosponsor (person)
- Chassaniol — cosponsor (person)
- Chism — cosponsor (person)
- England — cosponsor (person)
- Fillingane — cosponsor (person)
- Kirby — cosponsor (person)
- McCaughn — cosponsor (person)
- McDaniel — cosponsor (person)
- McMahan — cosponsor (person)
- Michel — cosponsor (person)
- Moran — cosponsor (person)
- Parks — cosponsor (person)
- Seymour — cosponsor (person)
- Sojourner — cosponsor (person)
- Sparks — cosponsor (person)
- Suber — cosponsor (person)
- Tate — cosponsor (person)
- Whaley — cosponsor (person)
- Wiggins — cosponsor (person)
- Williams — cosponsor (person)
- Younger — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-12T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Education `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-20T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-21T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2022-01-21T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2022-01-24T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2022-02-24T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Universities and Colleges `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-28T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-01T06:00:00+00:00** Read the Third Time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-03T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2022-03-03T06:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered (Hines, Huddleston, Scoggin)
- **2022-03-09T06:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Tabled
- **2022-03-09T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2022-03-11T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2022-03-11T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2022-03-14T05:00:00+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/9f5370fe-00a8-4d55-9bbf-b3276dd7f49f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).