---
type: "Bill"
title: "County veteran service officers; remove prohibition from holding any other elective or appointive position."
description: "County veteran service officers; remove prohibition from holding any other elective or appointive position."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 2043"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2043 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Military Affairs", "Veterans and Military Affairs", "County Affairs"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Branning"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-03T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2018-03-05T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/21cd2410-f9bb-420e-8c4c-c24ce18de9f7"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2018/pdf//history/SB/SB2043.xml"
source_hash: "5e7c53ed0044ff13ec3052028f272eeac3b2ad7e78035fe647427274402af49e"
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 2043 (2018) — County veteran service officers; remove prohibition from holding any other elective or appointive position.

## 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/2018/html/SB/2001-2099/SB2043IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2018/html/SB/2001-2099/SB2043PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2018/html/SB/2001-2099/SB2043SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **52–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passage — **117–2** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Branning — primary (person)
- Parker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-03T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Veterans and Military Affairs;County Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-24T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: VM To CA
- **2018-01-25T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-31T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2018-02-01T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2018-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Military Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-22T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-22T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2018-02-23T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2018-02-26T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2018-02-27T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2018-03-05T06:00:00+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/21cd2410-f9bb-420e-8c4c-c24ce18de9f7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).