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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Secretary of State's official seal; include the phrase \"In God We Trust\" at the bottom."
+description: "Secretary of State's official seal; include the phrase \"In God We Trust\" at the bottom."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
+legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "SB 2131"
+citation: "Mississippi SB 2131 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Accountability", "Efficiency", "Transparency"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["England"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 12
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2020-01-23T06:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2020-06-25T05:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/36128179-f797-43f2-8a99-e403ef6fb323"
+source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2020/pdf/House_authors/Barnett.xml"
+source_hash: "392b465cabc4e12e4355cc0d1aff25fecf72eca3c8d3eb6e4ac1a88b470f39f2"
+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 2131 (2020) — Secretary of State's official seal; include the phrase "In God We Trust" at the bottom.
+
+## 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/2020/html/SB/2100-2199/SB2131IN.htm)
+2. **Amendment No 1 (Adopted)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/pdf/sam/SB2131_S_Amend_01.pdf)
+3. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/SB/2100-2199/SB2131PS.htm)
+4. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/SB/2100-2199/SB2131SG.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **117–1** (pass) · lower
+- Passage as Amended — **52–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- England — primary (person)
+- Barnett — cosponsor (person)
+- Blackmon — cosponsor (person)
+- Blackwell — cosponsor (person)
+- Blount — cosponsor (person)
+- Boyd — cosponsor (person)
+- Branning — cosponsor (person)
+- Bryan — cosponsor (person)
+- Butler — cosponsor (person)
+- Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- Caughman — cosponsor (person)
+- Chassaniol — cosponsor (person)
+- Chism — cosponsor (person)
+- DeBar — cosponsor (person)
+- DeLano — cosponsor (person)
+- Doty — cosponsor (person)
+- Fillingane — cosponsor (person)
+- Frazier — cosponsor (person)
+- Harkins — cosponsor (person)
+- Hill — cosponsor (person)
+- Hopson — cosponsor (person)
+- Horhn — cosponsor (person)
+- Jackson (11th) — cosponsor (person)
+- Jackson (15th) — cosponsor (person)
+- Jackson (32nd) — cosponsor (person)
+- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Jordan — cosponsor (person)
+- Kirby — cosponsor (person)
+- McCaughn — cosponsor (person)
+- McDaniel — cosponsor (person)
+- McLendon — cosponsor (person)
+- McMahan — cosponsor (person)
+- Michel — cosponsor (person)
+- Moran — cosponsor (person)
+- Norwood — cosponsor (person)
+- Parker — cosponsor (person)
+- Parks — cosponsor (person)
+- Polk — cosponsor (person)
+- Seymour — cosponsor (person)
+- Simmons (12th) — cosponsor (person)
+- Simmons (13th) — cosponsor (person)
+- Sojourner — cosponsor (person)
+- Sparks — cosponsor (person)
+- Suber — cosponsor (person)
+- Tate — cosponsor (person)
+- Thomas — cosponsor (person)
+- Thompson — cosponsor (person)
+- Turner-Ford — cosponsor (person)
+- Whaley — cosponsor (person)
+- Wiggins — cosponsor (person)
+- Witherspoon — cosponsor (person)
+- Younger — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-23T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-25T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2020-03-10T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2020-03-10T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
+- **2020-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
+- **2020-03-25T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency `referral-committee`
+- **2020-06-04T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2020-06-16T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
+- **2020-06-17T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
+- **2020-06-19T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
+- **2020-06-19T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
+- **2020-06-25T05:00:00+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/36128179-f797-43f2-8a99-e403ef6fb323`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).
+