---
type: "Bill"
title: "Mississippi Dual Enrollment/Dual Credit Scholarship Program; establish."
description: "Mississippi Dual Enrollment/Dual Credit Scholarship Program; establish."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 2487"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2487 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations", "Universities and Colleges"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Parks"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 34
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-01-16T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2023-04-19T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a7747ed9-9107-4c97-b50d-b61f5d6e766a"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2023/pdf/House_authors/Jackson.xml"
source_hash: "d507ea61617e3a5e891f5765aefb462e95a26e0aea9c8969e6812f95e0c4dabc"
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 2487 (2023) — Mississippi Dual Enrollment/Dual Credit Scholarship Program; establish.

## 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/SB2487IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/pdf/ham/SB2487_H_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 2487** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB2487.pdf)
4. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/SB/2400-2499/SB2487PS.htm)
5. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/SB/2400-2499/SB2487CS.htm)
6. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/SB/2400-2499/SB2487SG.htm)

## Votes

- Adopt Conference Report — **52–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **113–5** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **112–4** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **52–0** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **107–8** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Parks — primary (person)
- Jackson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Universities and Colleges;Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-26T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPCS: UC To AP
- **2023-01-31T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPCS: AP To UC
- **2023-01-31T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-08T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2023-02-08T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2023-02-09T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2023-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Universities and Colleges;Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-22T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPAA: UC To AP
- **2023-02-28T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPAA: AP To UC
- **2023-02-28T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2023-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2023-03-08T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2023-03-14T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2023-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Parks,Hopson,DeBar
- **2023-03-21T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Scoggin,McCarty,Barton
- **2023-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2023-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2023-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Recommitted For Further Conf
- **2023-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Recommitted For Further Conf
- **2023-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2023-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2023-03-29T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2023-03-29T05:00:00+00:00** Reconsidered
- **2023-03-29T05:00:00+00:00** Recommitted For Further Conf
- **2023-03-29T05:00:00+00:00** Recommitted For Further Conf
- **2023-03-29T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2023-03-29T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2023-03-30T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2023-03-30T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2023-04-05T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2023-04-05T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2023-04-19T05:00:00+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/a7747ed9-9107-4c97-b50d-b61f5d6e766a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).