---
type: "Bill"
title: "Cosmetology and barbering; technical amendments."
description: "Cosmetology and barbering; technical amendments."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 2525"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2525 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Universities and Colleges"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Boyd"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-20T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-12T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8612dcea-3dd8-4b1c-8563-ad85fb6c3dbc"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2025/pdf/Senate_authors/Boyd.xml"
source_hash: "ce0e52c39330f55f30d4e258ca268232e26f6512767856fe5c933e3a7ee5b059"
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 2525 (2025) — Cosmetology and barbering; technical amendments.

## 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/2500-2599/SB2525IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/SB/2500-2599/SB2525PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/SB/2500-2599/SB2525SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **50–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **116–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Boyd — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-20T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Universities and Colleges `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-30T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2025-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Universities and Colleges `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-27T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-05T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2025-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-03-12T05:00:00+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/8612dcea-3dd8-4b1c-8563-ad85fb6c3dbc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).