---
type: "Bill"
title: "Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs Act; extend repealer on educational scholarship accounts (ESA)."
description: "Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs Act; extend repealer on educational scholarship accounts (ESA)."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 1229"
citation: "Mississippi HB 1229 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Roberson"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 25
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-02-15T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-05-13T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fde92639-e7e4-40b1-bf3a-21412dd122bc"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2024/pdf/House_authors/Roberson.xml"
source_hash: "1e8179434996e7155fa6ca5bf36aa8cddf9374b17043a9beb0c9f737f8535ddd"
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 1229 (2024) — Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs Act; extend repealer on educational scholarship accounts (ESA).

## 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/2024/html/HB/1200-1299/HB1229IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 to Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/pdf/sam/HB1229_S_Amend_01_to_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 1229** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB1229.pdf)
4. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/HB/1200-1299/HB1229PS.htm)
5. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/pdf/sam/HB1229_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
6. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/HB/1200-1299/HB1229CS.htm)
7. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/HB/1200-1299/HB1229SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **118–0** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **121–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **48–3** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **35–13** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Roberson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-15T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-29T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2024-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-14T05:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2024-03-20T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2024-04-10T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2024-04-10T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2024-04-15T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2024-04-15T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2024-04-16T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Roberson,McCarty,Holloway (76th)
- **2024-04-17T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named DeBar,Parker,Robinson
- **2024-04-17T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Roberson,McCarty,Owen
- **2024-04-29T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2024-04-29T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2024-04-30T05:00:00+00:00** Recommitted For Further Conf
- **2024-04-30T05:00:00+00:00** Recommitted For Further Conf
- **2024-04-30T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2024-04-30T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2024-05-01T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2024-05-01T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2024-05-04T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-05-06T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-05-13T05:00:00+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/fde92639-e7e4-40b1-bf3a-21412dd122bc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).