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+type: "Bill"
+title: "State employment; revise definition of the term \"disabled veteran\" as used for veterans preference."
+description: "State employment; revise definition of the term \"disabled veteran\" as used for veterans preference."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
+legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "SB 2863"
+citation: "Mississippi SB 2863 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Military Affairs", "Accountability", "Efficiency", "Transparency"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Parks"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 11
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-01-21T06:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2019-03-22T05:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/faef81ec-b432-4c1e-b53d-4486eb30b488"
+source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2019/pdf/House_authors/Blackwell.xml"
+source_hash: "bf6977bad1403a36d3dc89e01d9d9961cd3c1ccf00fb38ad47fc863def2d6924"
+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 2863 (2019) — State employment; revise definition of the term "disabled veteran" as used for veterans preference.
+
+## 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/2019/html/SB/2800-2899/SB2863IN.htm)
+2. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/SB/2800-2899/SB2863PS.htm)
+3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/SB/2800-2899/SB2863SG.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **50–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passage — **113–1** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Parks — primary (person)
+- Blackwell — cosponsor (person)
+- Hill — cosponsor (person)
+- Jackson_(11th) — cosponsor (person)
+- Massey — cosponsor (person)
+- Moran — cosponsor (person)
+- Parker — cosponsor (person)
+- Simmons_(13th) — cosponsor (person)
+- Younger — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-21T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-31T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2019-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
+- **2019-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
+- **2019-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Military Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-26T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2019-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
+- **2019-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
+- **2019-03-19T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
+- **2019-03-19T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
+- **2019-03-22T05:00:00+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/faef81ec-b432-4c1e-b53d-4486eb30b488`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).
+