---
type: "Bill"
title: "Proclamation of a local emergency; allow president of county board of supervisors to declare."
description: "Proclamation of a local emergency; allow president of county board of supervisors to declare."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 2243"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2243 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["County Affairs", "Accountability", "Efficiency", "Transparency"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Massey"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 15
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-01-15T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-03-21T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e93cf6f8-0eaf-4321-8bb3-9028b89dec0a"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2019/pdf/House_authors/Blackwell.xml"
source_hash: "56f563f3ba4ca54fe1790cf0ba3868d50621011df6e3e46f1810105eb6cb4005"
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 2243 (2019) — Proclamation of a local emergency; allow president of county board of supervisors to declare.

## 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/2019/html/SB/2200-2299/SB2243IN.htm)
2. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 2243** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB2243.pdf)
3. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/SB/2200-2299/SB2243PS.htm)
4. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/pdf/ham/SB2243_H_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
5. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/SB/2200-2299/SB2243CS.htm)
6. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/SB/2200-2299/SB2243SG.htm)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Massey — primary (person)
- Blackwell — cosponsor (person)
- Moran — cosponsor (person)
- Parker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-15T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency;County Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-31T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPCS: AC To CA
- **2019-02-04T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2019-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2019-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2019-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To County Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-26T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-28T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2019-02-28T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2019-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2019-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Concurred in Amend From House
- **2019-03-19T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2019-03-19T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2019-03-21T05:00:00+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/e93cf6f8-0eaf-4321-8bb3-9028b89dec0a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).