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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Rural Water Oversight Committee; create and prescribe duties of."
+description: "Rural Water Oversight Committee; create and prescribe duties of."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
+legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "SB 2526"
+citation: "Mississippi SB 2526 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Accountability", "Efficiency", "Transparency", "Energy", "Public Utilities"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Williams"]
+version_count: 9
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2026-01-19T06:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2026-03-19T05:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1bf2f432-7cad-48e5-abeb-7cb5c734c479"
+source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2026/pdf/Senate_authors/Williams.xml"
+source_hash: "be333e61fa6187004acab90636cff8cce4ce73586b3034fec838dfa8378be9a7"
+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 2526 (2026) — Rural Water Oversight Committee; create and prescribe duties of.
+
+## 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/2026/html/SB/2500-2599/SB2526IN.htm)
+2. **Amendment No 1 (Cmte Sub) (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2026/pdf/sam/SB2526_S_(Cmte_Sub)_Amend_01.pdf)
+3. **Amendment No 1 to Amendment No 1 (Cmte Sub) (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2026/pdf/sam/SB2526_S_(Cmte_Sub)_Amend_01_to_Amend_01.pdf)
+4. **Amendment No 2 (Cmte Sub) (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2026/pdf/sam/SB2526_S_(Cmte_Sub)_Amend_02.pdf)
+5. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 2526** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2026/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB2526.pdf)
+6. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2026/html/SB/2500-2599/SB2526PS.htm)
+7. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2026/pdf/ham/SB2526_H_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
+8. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2026/html/SB/2500-2599/SB2526CS.htm)
+9. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2026/html/SB/2500-2599/SB2526SG.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage as Amended — **109–4** (pass) · lower
+- Passage as Amended — **49–0** (pass) · upper
+- Concurrence in Amendment From House — **51–1** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Williams — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-01-19T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Energy `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-02T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
+- **2026-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
+- **2026-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2026-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
+- **2026-02-16T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
+- **2026-02-16T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Public Utilities;Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-26T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPAA: PU To AC
+- **2026-03-03T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPAA: AC To PU
+- **2026-03-03T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
+- **2026-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2026-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
+- **2026-03-05T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
+- **2026-03-10T05:00:00+00:00** Concurred in Amend From House
+- **2026-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
+- **2026-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
+- **2026-03-19T05:00:00+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/1bf2f432-7cad-48e5-abeb-7cb5c734c479`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).
+