---
type: "Bill"
title: "Professional music therapists; provide for licensure by State Department of Health."
description: "Professional music therapists; provide for licensure by State Department of Health."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 2741"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2741 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Health and Human Services", "Public Health and Welfare"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Parker"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 24
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/d694e997-8a66-4704-af98-4367a5cb1e72"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2025/pdf/House_authors/Barrett.xml"
source_hash: "a06189dc2d00f73d2e31fa29ae8dc1cbfb3c9daa916fe3552229e84e2b716cd2"
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 2741 (2025) — Professional music therapists; provide for licensure by State Department of Health.

## 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/2700-2799/SB2741IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/sam/SB2741_S_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **Amendment No 2 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/ham/SB2741_H_Amend_02.pdf)
4. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 2741** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB2741.pdf)
5. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/SB/2700-2799/SB2741PS.htm)
6. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/ham/SB2741_H_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
7. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/SB/2700-2799/SB2741SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage as Amended — **48–2** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **111–1** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **109–5** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **42–3** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Parker — primary (person)
- Barrett — cosponsor (person)
- Blackwell — cosponsor (person)
- England — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Tate — cosponsor (person)
- Williams — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-20T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Public Health and Welfare `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-04T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2025-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2025-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Public Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2025-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered (Scoggin, Creekmore IV, Felsher)
- **2025-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Tabled
- **2025-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2025-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2025-03-20T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Bryan,Parker,Wiggins
- **2025-03-20T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Creekmore IV,Felsher,Waldo
- **2025-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2025-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2025-03-29T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2025-04-01T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2025-04-01T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered (Creekmore IV, Felsher)
- **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/d694e997-8a66-4704-af98-4367a5cb1e72`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).