---
type: "Bill"
title: "Mississippi First Responders Health and Safety Act; create."
description: "Mississippi First Responders Health and Safety Act; create."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 2835"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2835 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance", "Appropriations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Carter"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 25
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-01-21T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-04-16T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/245a21bf-195f-4be1-a027-4acbdb32b86f"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2019/pdf/House_authors/Blackwell.xml"
source_hash: "69a305dd6a5454f37bf97b1c069ef35251748efed68dbb4018c9a1e95343457d"
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 2835 (2019) — Mississippi First Responders Health and Safety Act; create.

## 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/2800-2899/SB2835IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 (Cmte Sub) (Adopted)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/pdf/sam/SB2835_S_(Cmte_Sub)_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **Amendment No 1 to Amendment No 2 (Adopted)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/pdf/ham/SB2835_H_Amend_01_to_Amend_02.pdf)
4. **Amendment No 2 (Adopted)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/pdf/ham/SB2835_H_Amend_02.pdf)
5. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 2835** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB2835.pdf)
6. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/SB/2800-2899/SB2835PS.htm)
7. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/SB/2800-2899/SB2835CS.htm)
8. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/SB/2800-2899/SB2835SG.htm)

## Votes

- Adopt Conference Report — **51–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **114–1** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **50–1** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **112–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Carter — primary (person)
- Blackwell — cosponsor (person)
- Blount — cosponsor (person)
- Branning — cosponsor (person)
- Carmichael — cosponsor (person)
- Gollott — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson_(11th) — cosponsor (person)
- McDaniel — cosponsor (person)
- Moran — cosponsor (person)
- Seymour — cosponsor (person)
- Whaley — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-21T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Insurance;Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-04T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPCS: IN To AP
- **2019-02-05T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-07T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2019-02-07T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2019-02-07T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2019-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2019-02-21T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Insurance;Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPAA: IN To AP
- **2019-03-05T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPAA: AP To IN
- **2019-03-05T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Read the Third Time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2019-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2019-03-15T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2019-03-19T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2019-03-22T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Carmichael,Clarke,Carter
- **2019-03-22T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Ford,Hale,DeLano
- **2019-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2019-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2019-03-29T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2019-03-29T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2019-04-03T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2019-04-03T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2019-04-16T05:00:00+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/245a21bf-195f-4be1-a027-4acbdb32b86f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).