---
type: "Bill"
title: "State budgets and reserve funds; create Financial and Operational Responses That Invigorate Future Years (FORTIFY) Act."
description: "State budgets and reserve funds; create Financial and Operational Responses That Invigorate Future Years (FORTIFY) Act."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "20171E"
identifier: "SB 2002"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2002 (20171E)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations", "Appropriations", "Appropriations", "Appropriations", "Appropriations", "Appropriations", "Appropriations", "Appropriations", "Appropriations", "Appropriations", "Appropriations", "Appropriations", "Appropriations", "Appropriations", "Appropriations", "Appropriations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Clarke"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-06-05T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2017-06-23T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1269480b-7edd-4ce0-b807-ee134a2a8eeb"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/20171E/pdf//history/SB/SB2002.xml"
source_hash: "a090859b2e0d24cc14348c2a502d64bb03d5b93ed9702864da00ffd547683ab0"
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 2002 (20171E) — State budgets and reserve funds; create Financial and Operational Responses That Invigorate Future Years (FORTIFY) Act.

## 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/20171E/html/SB/2001-2099/SB2002IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/20171E/html/SB/2001-2099/SB2002PS.htm)
3. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/20171E/html/SB/2001-2099/SB2002CS.htm)
4. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/20171E/html/SB/2001-2099/SB2002SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **73–41** (pass) · legislature
- Passage — **37–13** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Clarke — primary (person)
- Dearing — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-06-05T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-05T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2017-06-05T05:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2017-06-05T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2017-06-05T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered
- **2017-06-05T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider W/Drawn
- **2017-06-05T05:00:00+00:00** Immediate Release
- **2017-06-05T05:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2017-06-05T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-05T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2017-06-05T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2017-06-05T05:00:00+00:00** Immediate Release
- **2017-06-05T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2017-06-06T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2017-06-06T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2017-06-23T05:00:00+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/1269480b-7edd-4ce0-b807-ee134a2a8eeb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).