---
type: "Bill"
title: "Marriage and family therapists; revise certain requirements for licensure."
description: "Marriage and family therapists; revise certain requirements for licensure."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 2159"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2159 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Business and Commerce", "Public Health and Welfare"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Fillingane"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-02T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-04-15T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2e141bdc-c9b3-4f6d-b57b-42f1158f8ee4"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2024/pdf/Senate_authors/Fillingane.xml"
source_hash: "b4b814d27904bab12c0e2e5633f76b05f9d2dccda4f6decd194102c9a2b15817"
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 2159 (2024) — Marriage and family therapists; revise certain requirements for licensure.

## 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/SB/2100-2199/SB2159IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/2100-2199/SB2159PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/2100-2199/SB2159SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **120–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **52–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Fillingane — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-02T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Public Health and Welfare `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-05T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-14T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-15T05:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2024-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Business and Commerce `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2024-04-04T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-05T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2024-04-08T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-04-08T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-04-15T05:00:00+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/2e141bdc-c9b3-4f6d-b57b-42f1158f8ee4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).