ESA for students with special needs; remove waitlist requirement.

HB 39 would have removed the waitlist requirement for students with special needs eligible for Educational Scholarship Accounts (ESAs) under Mississippi's "Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs Act." It would have required automatic enrollment for eligible students (based on first-come, first-served applications) and funded each ESA at the state's standard student base amount, adjusted annually like public school funding. The bill also clarified that ESA funds would not come from school district budgets. This legislation died in committee on February 4, 2025, and never became law.