---
type: "Bill"
title: "Practice of Psychology Licensure Law; extend repealer and make technical amendments."
description: "Practice of Psychology Licensure Law; extend repealer and make technical amendments."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 2480"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2480 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Health and Human Services", "Public Health and Welfare", "Appropriations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kirby"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-15T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2018-03-07T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7cc50c0b-a1f7-4f29-8f92-28597d5dff27"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2018/pdf//history/SB/SB2480.xml"
source_hash: "5ad760f99ade91556b1fe3d9e4392dbe9818c2ba8781e09bd1b01f10a835491e"
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 2480 (2018) — Practice of Psychology Licensure Law; extend repealer and make technical amendments.

## 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/2400-2499/SB2480IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2018/html/SB/2400-2499/SB2480PS.htm)
3. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2018/html/SB/2400-2499/SB2480CS.htm)
4. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2018/html/SB/2400-2499/SB2480SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **51–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passage — **116–1** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-15T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Public Health and Welfare;Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-24T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPCS: PH To AP
- **2018-01-25T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-08T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2018-02-08T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2018-02-09T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2018-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Public Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-22T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-28T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2018-03-01T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2018-03-02T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2018-03-02T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2018-03-07T06:00:00+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/7cc50c0b-a1f7-4f29-8f92-28597d5dff27`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).