---
type: "Bill"
title: "Criminal immunity; provide for persons when requesting assistance for medical emergency due to alcohol consumption."
description: "Criminal immunity; provide for persons when requesting assistance for medical emergency due to alcohol consumption."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 2197"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2197 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Judiciary B", "Judiciary", "Division A"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Watson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 28
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2018-01-09T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2018-04-12T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bcb73f02-c4d9-4a25-a011-3c82fdca8b65"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2018/pdf//history/SB/SB2197.xml"
source_hash: "cabfc55de87b224d5936c6d149ceb19c648ae32c12aab8f9db210f66e3b4d0b9"
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 2197 (2018) — Criminal immunity; provide for persons when requesting assistance for medical emergency due to alcohol consumption.

## 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/2100-2199/SB2197IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2018/html/SB/2100-2199/SB2197PS.htm)
3. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2018/html/SB/2100-2199/SB2197CS.htm)
4. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2018/html/SB/2100-2199/SB2197SG.htm)

## Votes

- Adopt Conference Report — **112–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passage — **52–0** (pass) · legislature
- Adopt Conference Report — **52–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passage as Amended — **117–0** (pass) · legislature
- Adopt Conference Report — **51–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Watson — primary (person)
- Jackson_(11th) — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-09T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary, Division A `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-23T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-01T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2018-02-01T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2018-02-02T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2018-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary B `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-27T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2018-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Read the Third Time `reading-3`
- **2018-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2018-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2018-03-09T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2018-03-21T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2018-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Hopson,DeBar,Carter
- **2018-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Gipson,Bailey,Bomgar
- **2018-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2018-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2018-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2018-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Tabled Subject To Call
- **2018-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Reconsidered
- **2018-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Recommitted For Further Conf
- **2018-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Recommitted For Further Conf
- **2018-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2018-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2018-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2018-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2018-03-29T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2018-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2018-04-12T05:00:00+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/bcb73f02-c4d9-4a25-a011-3c82fdca8b65`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).