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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "MS School Safety Guardian Act; create."
+description: "MS School Safety Guardian Act; create."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
+legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 2079"
+citation: "Mississippi SB 2079 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Education", "Judiciary B", "Judiciary", "Division A"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Hill"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 21
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2023-01-09T06:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2023-04-11T05:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/25360f61-538f-414c-9622-9374926c5e88"
+source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2023/pdf/House_authors/Blackwell.xml"
+source_hash: "ac4b6fa9db9c1e91ad0cc69f7791e2d2bb388326d09e4efdd344dec2b9aa0daa"
+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 2079 (2023) — MS School Safety Guardian Act; create.
+
+## 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/2023/html/SB/2001-2099/SB2079IN.htm)
+2. **Amendment No 1 to Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/pdf/ham/SB2079_H_Amend_01_to_Amend_01.pdf)
+3. **Amendment No 2 to Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/pdf/ham/SB2079_H_Amend_02_to_Amend_01.pdf)
+4. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 2079** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB2079.pdf)
+5. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/SB/2001-2099/SB2079PS.htm)
+6. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/pdf/ham/SB2079_H_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
+7. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/SB/2001-2099/SB2079CS.htm)
+8. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/SB/2001-2099/SB2079SG.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Adopt Conference Report — **38–14** (pass) · upper
+- Adopt Conference Report — **79–32** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **39–12** (pass) · upper
+- Passage as Amended — **80–35** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Hill — primary (person)
+- Blackwell — cosponsor (person)
+- Branning — cosponsor (person)
+- Caughman — cosponsor (person)
+- Chassaniol — cosponsor (person)
+- Chism — cosponsor (person)
+- England — cosponsor (person)
+- Fillingane — cosponsor (person)
+- McCaughn — cosponsor (person)
+- McLendon — cosponsor (person)
+- Moran — cosponsor (person)
+- Seymour — cosponsor (person)
+- Sojourner — cosponsor (person)
+- Tate — cosponsor (person)
+- Whaley — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-09T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Education;Judiciary, Division A `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-31T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPCS: ED To JA
+- **2023-01-31T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
+- **2023-02-08T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
+- **2023-02-08T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
+- **2023-02-09T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
+- **2023-02-20T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary B `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-23T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
+- **2023-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2023-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
+- **2023-03-08T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
+- **2023-03-15T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
+- **2023-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named DeBar,Hill,Polk
+- **2023-03-22T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Bain,Horan,Ford (73rd)
+- **2023-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
+- **2023-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
+- **2023-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
+- **2023-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
+- **2023-03-31T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
+- **2023-03-31T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
+- **2023-04-11T05:00:00+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/25360f61-538f-414c-9622-9374926c5e88`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).
+