---
type: "Bill"
title: "Administrative Procedures Act; require certain occupational licensing boards to review their rules every three years."
description: "Administrative Procedures Act; require certain occupational licensing boards to review their rules every three years."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 2526"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2526 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Accountability", "Efficiency", "Transparency"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Parks"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 19
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2018-01-15T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2018-04-12T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/230b0665-a8e2-4f21-a180-43e089c947c0"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2018/pdf//history/SB/SB2526.xml"
source_hash: "42576f9ad4752cf1c1416023edda5a77e83761d6647ae3b376fed143088b70a3"
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 (2018) — Administrative Procedures Act; require certain occupational licensing boards to review their rules every three years.

## 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/2500-2599/SB2526IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2018/html/SB/2500-2599/SB2526PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2018/html/SB/2500-2599/SB2526SG.htm)

## Votes

- Adopt Conference Report — **52–0** (pass) · legislature
- Adopt Conference Report — **117–1** (pass) · legislature
- Passage as Amended — **96–23** (pass) · legislature
- Passage — **51–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Parks — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-15T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-25T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **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 Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-22T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-28T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2018-02-28T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2018-03-01T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2018-03-19T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2018-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Polk,Blackwell,Clarke
- **2018-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Turner,Foster,Arnold
- **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** 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/230b0665-a8e2-4f21-a180-43e089c947c0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).