---
type: "Bill"
title: "Teachers' salaries; provide for $1,500.00 increase."
description: "Teachers' salaries; provide for $1,500.00 increase."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 2770"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2770 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education", "Appropriations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tollison"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 25
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-01-21T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-04-16T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ba3e9f94-9066-40a6-b804-5d09bd501c78"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2019/pdf/House_authors/Barnett.xml"
source_hash: "320c6275be608f842c314abc97cf724cf522e99275596f32d5c43586421b0a57"
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 2770 (2019) — Teachers' salaries; provide for $1,500.00 increase.

## 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/2019/html/SB/2700-2799/SB2770IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 to Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/pdf/ham/SB2770_H_Amend_01_to_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **Amendment No 2 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/pdf/sam/SB2770_S_Amend_02.pdf)
4. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 2770** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB2770.pdf)
5. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/SB/2700-2799/SB2770PS.htm)
6. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/pdf/ham/SB2770_H_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
7. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/SB/2700-2799/SB2770SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage as Amended — **112–2** (pass) · lower
- Motion to Recommit — **19–28** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **51–0** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **45–2** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **96–20** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Tollison — primary (person)
- Barnett — cosponsor (person)
- Blackwell — cosponsor (person)
- Branning — cosponsor (person)
- Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Dearing — cosponsor (person)
- Doty — cosponsor (person)
- Frazier — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson_(11th) — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson_(32nd) — cosponsor (person)
- Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Massey — cosponsor (person)
- McDaniel — cosponsor (person)
- McMahan — cosponsor (person)
- Moran — cosponsor (person)
- Parker — cosponsor (person)
- Parks — cosponsor (person)
- Whaley — cosponsor (person)
- Witherspoon — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-21T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Education `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-05T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2019-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2019-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2019-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Education;Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPAA: ED To AP
- **2019-03-05T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPAA: AP To ED
- **2019-03-05T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2019-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2019-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered (Harness, Sykes, Bennett, Roberson)
- **2019-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Tabled
- **2019-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2019-03-19T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2019-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Tollison,Clarke,Caughman
- **2019-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Bennett,Roberson,Read
- **2019-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2019-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2019-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Recommit Lost
- **2019-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2019-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2019-04-03T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2019-04-03T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2019-04-16T05:00:00+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/ba3e9f94-9066-40a6-b804-5d09bd501c78`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).