---
type: "Bill"
title: "Early Learning Collaborative Act; require the Department of Education to provide certain data on educational effects."
description: "Early Learning Collaborative Act; require the Department of Education to provide certain data on educational effects."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 2556"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2556 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Younger"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-16T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-04-17T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a4bf8127-a8f6-4ef9-af61-b027bd0db736"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2024/pdf/House_authors/Blackwell.xml"
source_hash: "aa71c0f2842e62c7c43799c8432c17ba092edf7932e9f6aa02dbee512a43e6dc"
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 2556 (2024) — Early Learning Collaborative Act; require the Department of Education to provide certain data on educational effects.

## 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/2500-2599/SB2556IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/2500-2599/SB2556PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/2500-2599/SB2556SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **121–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **51–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Younger — primary (person)
- Blackwell — cosponsor (person)
- Chassaniol — cosponsor (person)
- Kirby — cosponsor (person)
- Polk — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-16T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-22T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-08T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2024-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-02T05:00:00+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
- **2024-04-10T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-04-10T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-04-17T05:00:00+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/a4bf8127-a8f6-4ef9-af61-b027bd0db736`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).