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type: "Bill"
title: "The Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs Act; revise and extend repealer."
description: "The Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs Act; revise and extend repealer."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 2594"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2594 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education", "Appropriations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["DeBar"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-17T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2020-06-25T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0ef78d4e-4288-42c6-bb33-b1581fc5e2df"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2020/pdf/Senate_authors/DeBar.xml"
source_hash: "d4dad2b11d4c09c90f85c501502278a06768b02614509977009a1b20d53138b0"
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 2594 (2020) — The Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs Act; revise and extend repealer.
## 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/SB/2500-2599/SB2594IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/SB/2500-2599/SB2594PS.htm)
3. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/SB/2500-2599/SB2594CS.htm)
4. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/SB/2500-2599/SB2594SG.htm)
## Votes
- Passage — **4010** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **7237** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- DeBar — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Education;Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-27T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPCS: ED To AP
- **2020-02-27T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2020-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Amendment Failed `amendment-failure`
- **2020-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-09T05:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2020-03-25T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Education;Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-01T05:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: ED To AP
- **2020-06-09T05:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: AP To ED
- **2020-06-09T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-06-12T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2020-06-12T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered (Cockerham, Bennett, McCarty)
- **2020-06-15T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Tabled
- **2020-06-15T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2020-06-19T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2020-06-19T05:00:00+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/0ef78d4e-4288-42c6-bb33-b1581fc5e2df`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).