---
type: "Bill"
title: "School board members; increase pay."
description: "School board members; increase pay."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 2749"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2749 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations", "Education"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hopson"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 22
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-01-16T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2023-04-17T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a39a51a0-6997-46f0-9950-70880d1f629e"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2023/pdf/House_authors/Blackwell.xml"
source_hash: "8a634c91b42bded2d618311039e1bd7f6e81f38084bcc97e7b2ab51648562472"
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 2749 (2023) — School board members; increase pay.

## 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/2700-2799/SB2749IN.htm)
2. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 2749** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB2749.pdf)
3. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/SB/2700-2799/SB2749PS.htm)
4. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/pdf/ham/SB2749_H_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
5. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/SB/2700-2799/SB2749CS.htm)
6. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/SB/2700-2799/SB2749SG.htm)

## Votes

- Adopt Conference Report — **115–2** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **48–0** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **52–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **109–7** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hopson — primary (person)
- Blackwell — cosponsor (person)
- Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Butler (38th) — cosponsor (person)
- Carter — cosponsor (person)
- DeBar — cosponsor (person)
- DeLano — cosponsor (person)
- Frazier — cosponsor (person)
- Hickman — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- McLendon — cosponsor (person)
- McMahan — cosponsor (person)
- Moran — cosponsor (person)
- Seymour — cosponsor (person)
- Simmons (13th) — cosponsor (person)
- Tate — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Education;Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-25T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPCS: ED To AP
- **2023-01-26T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-02T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2023-02-02T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2023-02-03T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2023-02-21T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Education `referral-committee`
- **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 DeBar,Hopson,Polk
- **2023-03-22T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Bennett,McCarty,Owen
- **2023-03-29T05:00:00+00:00** Suspend from Deadlines by HC 61
- **2023-03-30T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2023-03-30T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2023-03-30T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2023-03-31T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2023-04-04T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2023-04-04T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2023-04-17T05:00:00+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/a39a51a0-6997-46f0-9950-70880d1f629e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).