---
type: "Bill"
title: "High school graduation requirements; allow sign language to be counted as a foreign language."
description: "High school graduation requirements; allow sign language to be counted as a foreign language."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 2339"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2339 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hill"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-08T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-04-15T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/66ad96b1-7186-4522-8015-6d53baa65137"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2024/pdf/Senate_authors/Hill.xml"
source_hash: "7f8a705c613fd11c3bfcf7ad2b76e751d4f05f4cdd5e0e4ab1c63d14abb43914"
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 2339 (2024) — High school graduation requirements; allow sign language to be counted as a foreign language.

## 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/SB/2300-2399/SB2339IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/2300-2399/SB2339PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/2300-2399/SB2339SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **50–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **121–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hill — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-08T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-22T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2024-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2024-04-04T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-05T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2024-04-08T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-04-08T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-04-15T05:00:00+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/66ad96b1-7186-4522-8015-6d53baa65137`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).