---
type: "Bill"
title: "Forgery; revise penalty for."
description: "Forgery; revise penalty for."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 2470"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2470 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Judiciary B", "Judiciary", "Division B"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Fillingane"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-21T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-03-22T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/163ac071-3f7a-4233-ad90-d794af8f1110"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2019/pdf/Senate_authors/Fillingane.xml"
source_hash: "9f70da800927bc9b8a9cb36922cde266246d32d183e37e34e3ed48d152ded916"
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 2470 (2019) — Forgery; revise 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/2019/html/SB/2400-2499/SB2470IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/SB/2400-2499/SB2470PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/SB/2400-2499/SB2470SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **51–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **109–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Fillingane — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-21T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary, Division B `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-31T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Amendment Failed `amendment-failure`
- **2019-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2019-02-14T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2019-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary B `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-05T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Read the Third Time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2019-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered (Lamar, Cockerham, Bailey)
- **2019-03-14T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Tabled
- **2019-03-14T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2019-03-19T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2019-03-19T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2019-03-22T05:00:00+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/163ac071-3f7a-4233-ad90-d794af8f1110`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).