---
type: "Bill"
title: "Dog fighting; revise offense of and penalty for."
description: "Dog fighting; revise offense of and penalty for."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 2934"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2934 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Judiciary B", "Judiciary", "Division A"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dearing"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2018-01-15T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2018-04-13T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ff863992-bc1e-4a72-96df-987d5106c17d"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2018/pdf//history/SB/SB2934.xml"
source_hash: "63b4c26440d8ee2ef0012a00c79c1aff997623d0d339050d56ac0bb543fa4fa4"
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 2934 (2018) — Dog fighting; revise offense of and penalty for.

## 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/2900-2999/SB2934IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2018/html/SB/2900-2999/SB2934PS.htm)
3. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2018/html/SB/2900-2999/SB2934CS.htm)
4. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2018/html/SB/2900-2999/SB2934SG.htm)

## Votes

- Adopt Conference Report — **47–3** (pass) · legislature
- Passage — **44–7** (pass) · legislature
- Passage as Amended — **113–1** (pass) · legislature
- Adopt Conference Report — **109–5** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Dearing — primary (person)
- Barnett — cosponsor (person)
- Blackwell — cosponsor (person)
- Burton — cosponsor (person)
- Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Carmichael — cosponsor (person)
- Chassaniol — cosponsor (person)
- Doty — cosponsor (person)
- Frazier — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Horhn — cosponsor (person)
- Hudson — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson_(11th) — cosponsor (person)
- Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Kirby — cosponsor (person)
- McMahan — cosponsor (person)
- Parker — cosponsor (person)
- Parks — cosponsor (person)
- Polk — cosponsor (person)
- Seymour — cosponsor (person)
- Witherspoon — cosponsor (person)
- Younger — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-15T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary, Division A `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-30T06:00:00+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`
- **2018-02-08T06:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered
- **2018-02-09T06:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Tabled
- **2018-02-09T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2018-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary B `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-22T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `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
- **2018-03-15T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2018-03-24T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Hopson,DeBar,Fillingane
- **2018-03-25T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Gipson,Bailey,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
- **2018-04-04T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2018-04-04T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2018-04-13T05:00:00+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/ff863992-bc1e-4a72-96df-987d5106c17d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).