Senate Bill 2618 Summary

• Transfers employment responsibility for school attendance officers from the State Department of Education to local school districts effective July 1, 2025.

• Abolishes three regional school attendance officer supervisor positions and establishes state office staff to provide oversight, technical assistance, and professional development to local district officers.

• Requires the state to fund one school attendance officer per 3,000 compulsory-school-age children enrolled in each county's public schools.

• Sets minimum salary of $34,000 for newly hired school attendance officers beginning July 1, 2025, with local school boards authorized to pay additional compensation above minimum.

• Requires the State Department of Education and Mississippi Association of School Superintendents to submit a joint report to the Legislature during the 2027 Regular Session on the status and progress of school attendance officers operating as local district employees.