---
type: "Bill"
title: "Community hospitals; revise provisions regarding service area and proposed sale of."
description: "Community hospitals; revise provisions regarding service area and proposed sale of."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 2892"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2892 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Health and Human Services", "Public Health and Welfare"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wiggins"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 13
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-01-21T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-03-29T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7eae86e8-1fd7-4d7b-85ce-2b6ea660524d"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2019/pdf/House_authors/DeBar.xml"
source_hash: "91ab72567d8b1a6682a7091c571336426aa8d7819b4b564de2179c600bbf6ecb"
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 2892 (2019) — Community hospitals; revise provisions regarding service area and proposed sale of.

## 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/SB2892IN.htm)
2. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 2892** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB2892.pdf)
3. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/SB/2800-2899/SB2892PS.htm)
4. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/pdf/ham/SB2892_H_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
5. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/SB/2800-2899/SB2892SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **51–0** (pass) · upper
- Concurrence in Amendment From House — **52–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **78–28** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Wiggins — primary (person)
- DeBar — cosponsor (person)
- Jordan — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-21T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Public Health and Welfare `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-05T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2019-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2019-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Public Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-27T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2019-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2019-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2019-03-19T05:00:00+00:00** Concurred in Amend From House
- **2019-03-22T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2019-03-25T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2019-03-29T05:00:00+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/7eae86e8-1fd7-4d7b-85ce-2b6ea660524d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).