---
type: "Bill"
title: "Certified Academic Language Therapists; allow to help instruct students with dyslexia in schools."
description: "Certified Academic Language Therapists; allow to help instruct students with dyslexia in schools."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 2681"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2681 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["England"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-19T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-04-22T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/843a158e-e559-4a2e-997e-afefcfbf72c7"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2024/pdf/House_authors/Barrett.xml"
source_hash: "c4a928f0a85b4b0440997d4788543c980ed965149e07c2ef34419ccc2d688068"
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 2681 (2024) — Certified Academic Language Therapists; allow to help instruct students with dyslexia in schools.

## 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/2600-2699/SB2681IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/2600-2699/SB2681PS.htm)
3. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/2600-2699/SB2681CS.htm)
4. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/2600-2699/SB2681SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **121–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **52–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- England — primary (person)
- Barrett — cosponsor (person)
- Blackmon — cosponsor (person)
- Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Carter — cosponsor (person)
- DeLano — cosponsor (person)
- Horhn — cosponsor (person)
- Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Kirby — cosponsor (person)
- McCaughn — cosponsor (person)
- Michel — cosponsor (person)
- Norwood — cosponsor (person)
- Parks — cosponsor (person)
- Seymour — cosponsor (person)
- Simmons (12th) — cosponsor (person)
- Simmons (13th) — cosponsor (person)
- Suber — cosponsor (person)
- Turner-Ford — cosponsor (person)
- Wiggins — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-05T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2024-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-14T05:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2024-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2024-04-09T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-10T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2024-04-12T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-04-12T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-04-22T05:00:00+00:00** Law W/out Governor's Signature `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/843a158e-e559-4a2e-997e-afefcfbf72c7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).