---
type: "Bill"
title: "Tate County School Board; require to consolidate system of high schools by closing Coldwater High School."
description: "Tate County School Board; require to consolidate system of high schools by closing Coldwater High School."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 669"
citation: "Mississippi HB 669 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bennett"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-06T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2020-06-25T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6515a917-f40d-41e6-b402-4d9ba575ff5b"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2020/pdf/House_authors/Bennett.xml"
source_hash: "56c153b3d3dd9b4dda8091b89a4a00e052f2846db594e80eddf13c76dfc61656"
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 HB 669 (2020) — Tate County School Board; require to consolidate system of high schools by closing Coldwater High School.

## 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/2020/html/HB/0600-0699/HB0669IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/HB/0600-0699/HB0669PS.htm)
3. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/HB/0600-0699/HB0669CS.htm)
4. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/HB/0600-0699/HB0669SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **34–13** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **77–36** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bennett — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-06T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-03T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2020-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered (Osborne, Bennett, McCarty)
- **2020-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Tabled
- **2020-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2020-05-11T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-28T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-06-10T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2020-06-11T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered
- **2020-06-15T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Tabled
- **2020-06-15T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2020-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2020-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2020-06-25T05:00:00+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/6515a917-f40d-41e6-b402-4d9ba575ff5b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).