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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Bail agents; revise procedure for determining in municipal and justice courts."
+description: "Bail agents; revise procedure for determining in municipal and justice courts."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
+legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 2298"
+citation: "Mississippi SB 2298 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Judiciary B", "Judiciary", "Division B"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Wiggins"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 11
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-01-16T06:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2023-03-14T05:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4a2d0770-e303-479d-9d72-504bb5495a7e"
+source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2023/pdf/House_authors/England.xml"
+source_hash: "01e0f938649ed22e30d498f898ea56b6703df8f74cbb9bc9a01a9e07353eb45f"
+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 2298 (2023) — Bail agents; revise procedure for determining in municipal and justice courts.
+
+## 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/2200-2299/SB2298IN.htm)
+2. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/SB/2200-2299/SB2298PS.htm)
+3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/SB/2200-2299/SB2298SG.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **117–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **51–1** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Wiggins — primary (person)
+- England — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary, Division B `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-26T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2023-02-07T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
+- **2023-02-08T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
+- **2023-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary B `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-23T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2023-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
+- **2023-03-08T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
+- **2023-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
+- **2023-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
+- **2023-03-14T05:00:00+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/4a2d0770-e303-479d-9d72-504bb5495a7e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).
+