---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Veterans Affairs Board; clarify the required qualifications of executive director and deputy director."
description: "State Veterans Affairs Board; clarify the required qualifications of executive director and deputy director."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 2644"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2644 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Military Affairs", "Veterans and Military Affairs", "Accountability", "Efficiency", "Transparency"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Parker"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-01-15T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2018-03-16T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/90c7773c-6e3b-4b5f-8ef8-2eb431af55eb"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2018/pdf//history/SB/SB2644.xml"
source_hash: "335e310bc1ca21e05aec17474ca9bc22bbcb44c11b721115e6952d0a63819aae"
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 2644 (2018) — State Veterans Affairs Board; clarify the required qualifications of executive director and deputy director.

## 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/2600-2699/SB2644IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2018/html/SB/2600-2699/SB2644PS.htm)
3. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2018/html/SB/2600-2699/SB2644CS.htm)
4. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2018/html/SB/2600-2699/SB2644SG.htm)

## Votes

- Concurrence in Amendment From House — **50–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passage as Amended — **52–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passage as Amended — **117–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Parker — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-15T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Veterans and Military Affairs;Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-24T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPCS: VM To AC
- **2018-01-25T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-31T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2018-01-31T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2018-01-31T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2018-02-02T06:00:00+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 As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-22T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2018-02-22T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2018-02-23T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2018-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Concurred in Amend From House
- **2018-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2018-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2018-03-16T05:00:00+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/90c7773c-6e3b-4b5f-8ef8-2eb431af55eb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).