---
type: "Bill"
title: "Early Intervention Act for Infants and Toddlers; add certain individuals to definition of qualified personnel."
description: "Early Intervention Act for Infants and Toddlers; add certain individuals to definition of qualified personnel."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 2485"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2485 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education", "Public Health and Welfare"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hickman"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-01-16T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2023-03-14T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d203f327-7b4c-462d-8e87-ffbf83b4a861"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2023/pdf/House_authors/Boyd.xml"
source_hash: "94a704afafd22eba4edcd149b6dccdaf84cf31eb48d233bf031c22f4b059aa39"
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 2485 (2023) — Early Intervention Act for Infants and Toddlers; add certain individuals to definition of qualified personnel.

## 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/2023/html/SB/2400-2499/SB2485IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/SB/2400-2499/SB2485PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/SB/2400-2499/SB2485SG.htm)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Hickman — primary (person)
- Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Public Health and Welfare `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-31T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-08T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2023-02-09T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2023-02-22T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Education `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-28T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2023-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered (Bennett, McCarty)
- **2023-03-09T06:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider W/Drawn
- **2023-03-09T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2023-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2023-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2023-03-14T05:00:00+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/d203f327-7b4c-462d-8e87-ffbf83b4a861`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).