Universities and Colleges

MS - Senator Nicole Boyd (R)

Title:

Chairman

MS - Senator Bart Williams (R)

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Vice-chairman

MS - Senator Albert Butler (D)

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Member

MS - Senator Joel R. Carter, Jr. (R)

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Member

MS - Senator Scott DeLano (R)

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Member

MS - Senator Hillman Terome Frazier (D)

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Member

MS - Senator Josh Harkins (R)

Title:

Member

MS - Senator Briggs Hopson (R)

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Member

MS - Senator Tyler McCaughn (R)

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Member

MS - Senator J. Walter Michel (R)

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Member

MS - Senator John A. Polk (R)

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Member

MS - Senator Sollie B. Norwood (D)

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Member

MS - Senator Daniel H. Sparks (R)

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Member

MS - SB2217 "Mississippi Natural Hair Care School"; create.

MS - SB2216 IHL; remove date of repeal.

MS - SB2218 Mississippi Safe Dormitories Act; enact.

MS - SB2219 Rejecting Racism in Higher Education Act; enact.

MS - SB2223 Programs for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion; prohibit universities from establishing or maintaining.

MS - SB2221 Campus safety; require institutions of higher learning to review safety procedures concerning student living accommodations.

MS - SB2220 Mississippians' Right to Name, Likeness and Voice Act; enact.

MS - SB2222 Registered sex offenders; prohibit residence in campus student housing or sorority/fraternity houses.

MS - SB2444 Waive tuition for certain veterans to attend universities or community colleges; establish program for combat veterans.

MS - HB642 Construction of prefabricated buildings; authorize procurement and construction of at Alcorn State University.

MS - HB3 Mississippi Commission on College Accreditation; revise composition of to ensure adequate representation.

MS - HB99 IHL Board; delete repealer on authority to oversee certain construction projects funded by state general obligation bonds.

MS - HB1086 University of Mississippi; authorize to enter into long-term lease for public-private partnership for development of university property.

MS - HB1556 Mississippi Career and Technical Education Employability (MissCATEE) Program; establish to provide tuition-free community college.

MS - HB1193 State institutions of higher learning; prohibit diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs and diversity statements.

MS - SN17 John Raymond Pigott, Carriere, Mississippi, Mississippi Community College Board, six year term beginning July 1, 2024 and ending June 30, 2030, representing the Fifth Congressional District as it existed in 1986.

MS - SN16 Fredie Videt Carmichael, Sr., Meridian, Mississippi, Mississippi Community College Board, six year term beginning July 1, 2024 and ending June 30, 2030, representing the Third Congressional District as it existed in 1986.

MS - SN18 Cheryl Jean Thurmond, Ripley, Mississippi, Mississippi Community College Board, six year term beginning July 1, 2024 and ending June 30, 2030, representing the First Congressional District as it existed in 1986.

MS - SN13 Leonard H. (Len) Blanton, Jr., Tupelo, Mississippi, Board of Directors of the College Savings Plans of Mississippi Trust Funds, five year term effective July 1, 2024 and ending June 30, 2029, representing the First Congressional District.

MS - SB2516 Safe Dormitories Act; enact.

MS - SB2514 Nurse Teacher Loan Repayment Program; establish.

MS - SB2515 REFOCUS Act; enact.

MS - SB2517 "MS Intercollegiate Athletics Compensation Rights Act" and "Uniform Athletes Agent Act"; bring forward.

MS - SB2518 Public Private Partnerships; allow IHL board to lease on behalf of public institutions of higher learning.

MS - SB2523 Mississippi Commission on College Accreditation; update membership.

MS - SB2521 Mississippi Dual Enrollment/Dual Credit Scholarship Program Act; extend date of repeal.

MS - SB2520 Jackson State University; provide for the construction of a six hundred room student housing project.

MS - SB2525 Cosmetology and barbering; technical amendments.

MS - SB2524 Board Certified Behavior Analyst Loan Repayment Program; create.

MS - SB2526 Yellow Ribbon Program funds; allow nonresident veterans to fully participate and receive.

MS - SB2519 Public-private partnerships; allow IHL board to lease on behalf of the University of Mississippi.

MS - SB2529 Mississippi Resident Tuition Assistance and Promise Grant Program; create to provide financial assistance to students.

MS - SB2528 Reconnect Grant Program; create.

MS - SB2527 Mississippi Resident Promise Grant Program; create to provide financial assistance to community college students.

MS - SB2522 Task Force to Study Restoration of Adequate Funding to Alcorn State University; create.

MS - SB2530 Certain mental health trainings and support services; require community colleges and public universities to provide.

MS - SN70 Charles Tyler (Tyler) Norman, Meridian, Mississippi, Board of Directors of the College Savings Plans of Mississippi Trust Funds, five year term effective July 1, 2024 and ending June 30, 2029, representing the Third Congressional District.

MS - HB1555 MS Curriculum Alignment Task Force; create.

MS - HB1412 MS Workforce Dual Enrollment for Career and Technical Education Grant Program; create pilot program for.

MS - SN87 Amy Bland Arrington, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Board of Trustees of the Institutions of Higher Learning, remainder of a nine year term effective February 4, 2025 and ending May 7, 2027, representing the Second Supreme Court District, vice Jeanne Luckey.