---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Records Act; exempt school district test security plans for administration of Statewide Student Assessment Program."
description: "Public Records Act; exempt school district test security plans for administration of Statewide Student Assessment Program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 2181"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2181 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["DeBar"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-01-20T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-10T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/049cfde8-2f7a-4e4c-8997-b9706ebe7c3f"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2025/pdf/Senate_authors/DeBar.xml"
source_hash: "cb92a38710825f6a99035c1ef085e7671dfc1b4514bc01d3e6e0dea881f0c42e"
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 2181 (2025) — Public Records Act; exempt school district test security plans for administration of Statewide Student Assessment Program.

## 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/2025/html/SB/2100-2199/SB2181IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/ham/SB2181_H_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 2181** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB2181.pdf)
4. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/SB/2100-2199/SB2181PS.htm)
5. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/SB/2100-2199/SB2181SG.htm)

## Votes

- Adopt Conference Report — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **118–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **50–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **120–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- DeBar — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-20T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-31T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-06T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-07T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2025-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-27T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-27T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2025-02-28T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2025-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2025-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named DeBar,Robinson,McMahan
- **2025-03-20T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Roberson,McCarty,Owen
- **2025-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2025-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2025-04-01T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2025-04-01T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered (Roberson, McCarty)
- **2025-04-01T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2025-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Tabled
- **2025-04-07T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-04-07T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-04-10T05:00:00+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/049cfde8-2f7a-4e4c-8997-b9706ebe7c3f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).