---
type: "Bill"
title: "Youth Court Act; implement recommendations of Supreme Court's Commission on Children's Justice."
description: "Youth Court Act; implement recommendations of Supreme Court's Commission on Children's Justice."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 2840"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2840 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Judiciary A", "Judiciary", "Division A"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wiggins"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 23
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/45d8dede-e819-4374-a46b-9631234512b6"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2019/pdf/House_authors/Dearing.xml"
source_hash: "afd11c2dd15f9d2ed10f062519897308817b6b855b7a639b0cea98720fa544fd"
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 2840 (2019) — Youth Court Act; implement recommendations of Supreme Court's Commission on Children's Justice.

## 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/SB2840IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 (Cmte Sub) (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/pdf/sam/SB2840_S_(Cmte_Sub)_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **Amendment No 1 to Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/pdf/ham/SB2840_H_Amend_01_to_Amend_01.pdf)
4. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 2840** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB2840.pdf)
5. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/SB/2800-2899/SB2840PS.htm)
6. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/pdf/ham/SB2840_H_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
7. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/SB/2800-2899/SB2840CS.htm)
8. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/SB/2800-2899/SB2840SG.htm)

## Votes

- Adopt Conference Report — **51–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **51–0** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **117–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **116–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Wiggins — primary (person)
- Dearing — cosponsor (person)
- Parker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-21T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary, Division A `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-05T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2019-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2019-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2019-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered
- **2019-02-14T06:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Tabled
- **2019-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2019-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary A `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-26T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2019-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2019-03-14T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2019-03-21T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2019-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Hopson,Wiggins,Turner-Ford
- **2019-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Baker,Reynolds,Roberson
- **2019-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2019-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2019-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2019-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2019-04-04T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2019-04-04T05:00:00+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/45d8dede-e819-4374-a46b-9631234512b6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).