MS SB2604

Creates a seven-member committee (three State Board of Education members, four legislative appointees) to study oversight of school athletics and extracurricular activities and decide by January 1, 2026, whether regulation should be handled by a new private nonprofit corporation or an existing nonprofit organization.

Prohibits school districts from paying public funds to organizations regulating high school athletics and extracurricular activities from July 1, 2027, through June 30, 2028, and prevents districts from directing booster organizations to fund such entities during this period.

Requires any organization regulating public high school athletics to maintain transparent policymaking, provide monthly/quarterly financial reports to member schools, explain fee changes, and maintain formal complaint logs.

Prohibits athletics regulatory organizations from preventing member schools from competing against nonmember schools when both schools agree in writing to compete.

Allows school districts to resume paying funds to approved regulatory organizations beginning July 1, 2028, and amends Section 37-7-301 to condition school board authority over athletics on compliance with the bill's requirements.