---
type: "Bill"
title: "Assistant teachers; revise qualifications for employment."
description: "Assistant teachers; revise qualifications for employment."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 1669"
citation: "Mississippi HB 1669 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McCarty"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-19T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-04-20T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f6454dc7-6ce8-4ee4-964b-b74eedf60656"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2024/pdf/House_authors/McCarty.xml"
source_hash: "0b998ba1c40721365fa3eb5104445296b6d97d5ed5de7c36c79fcd7d25383dd5"
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 HB 1669 (2024) — Assistant teachers; revise qualifications for employment.

## 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/2024/html/HB/1600-1699/HB1669IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/HB/1600-1699/HB1669PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/HB/1600-1699/HB1669SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **118–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **52–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- McCarty — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-22T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-28T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2024-02-29T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2024-03-01T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-01T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2024-04-09T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-10T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2024-04-12T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-04-12T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-04-20T05:00:00+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/f6454dc7-6ce8-4ee4-964b-b74eedf60656`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).