---
type: "Bill"
title: "Lottery; create and establish the Mississippi Lottery Corporation to administer the lottery."
description: "Lottery; create and establish the Mississippi Lottery Corporation to administer the lottery."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "20181E"
identifier: "SB 2001"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2001 (20181E)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Gaming", "Highways and Transportation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Moran"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 26
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2018-08-23T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2018-08-31T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3a430929-903c-4cb0-b85e-58fc2885c496"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/20181E/pdf//history/SB/SB2001.xml"
source_hash: "0494f7d76a377b568fde0653023111234f851d6ca6168728cdc3c9202fecdb09"
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 2001 (20181E) — Lottery; create and establish the Mississippi Lottery Corporation to administer the lottery.

## 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/20181E/html/SB/2001-2099/SB2001IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/20181E/html/SB/2001-2099/SB2001PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/20181E/html/SB/2001-2099/SB2001SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage as Amended — **30–20** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **64–49** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **31–17** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **54–60** (fail) · lower
- Table Motion to Reconsider — **29–17** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **71–43** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Moran — primary (person)
- Blackwell — cosponsor (person)
- Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Chassaniol — cosponsor (person)
- Dearing — cosponsor (person)
- Gollott — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson_(11th) — cosponsor (person)
- Seymour — cosponsor (person)
- Simmons_(13th) — cosponsor (person)
- Wiggins — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-08-23T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Highways and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2018-08-23T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2018-08-23T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2018-08-23T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2018-08-24T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered
- **2018-08-24T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Tabled
- **2018-08-24T05:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2018-08-24T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Gaming `referral-committee`
- **2018-08-24T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2018-08-24T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2018-08-24T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2018-08-24T05:00:00+00:00** Immediate Release
- **2018-08-24T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2018-08-27T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2018-08-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Simmons (13th),Burton,Harkins
- **2018-08-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Eure,Bennett,Burnett
- **2018-08-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2018-08-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2018-08-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Failed
- **2018-08-27T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered (Patterson, Eure, Burnett, Bennett)
- **2018-08-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2018-08-28T05:00:00+00:00** Reconsidered
- **2018-08-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2018-08-29T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2018-08-30T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2018-08-31T05:00:00+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/3a430929-903c-4cb0-b85e-58fc2885c496`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).