---
type: "Bill"
title: "Energy High School Academy; authorize Vicksburg-Warren and Claiborne school districts to enter into partnership."
description: "Energy High School Academy; authorize Vicksburg-Warren and Claiborne school districts to enter into partnership."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 2928"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2928 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education", "Appropriations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hopson"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 25
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-01-21T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-04-18T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/56a7d540-a116-4f1e-81c5-534f2652f7cb"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2019/pdf/Senate_authors/Hopson.xml"
source_hash: "bec1a25a542fc348e977093996e6fa4c72c49eef07e7eb29faf53b5d0582cd02"
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 2928 (2019) — Energy High School Academy; authorize Vicksburg-Warren and Claiborne school districts to enter into partnership.

## 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/2900-2999/SB2928IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 to Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/pdf/ham/SB2928_H_Amend_01_to_Amend_01.htm)
3. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 2928** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB2928.pdf)
4. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/SB/2900-2999/SB2928PS.htm)
5. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/pdf/ham/SB2928_H_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
6. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/SB/2900-2999/SB2928CS.htm)
7. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/SB/2900-2999/SB2928SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage as Amended — **113–1** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **50–1** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **115–1** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **50–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hopson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-21T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-05T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-06T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2019-02-06T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2019-02-07T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2019-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Education;Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPAA: ED To AP
- **2019-03-05T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPAA: AP To ED
- **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** Reconsidered
- **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 Clarke,Hopson,Butler
- **2019-03-25T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Bennett,DeLano,Busby
- **2019-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2019-03-26T05:00:00+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
- **2019-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2019-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2019-04-18T05:00:00+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/56a7d540-a116-4f1e-81c5-534f2652f7cb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).