---
type: "Bill"
title: "Sex offenders; future contact with victim prohibited (Carly's Law)."
description: "Sex offenders; future contact with victim prohibited (Carly's Law)."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 2009"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2009 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Judiciary B", "Judiciary", "Division B"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blackwell"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 22
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2020-01-14T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2020-07-07T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/01ae79c4-c0b9-4f3b-9b0a-878889faaea6"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2020/pdf/House_authors/Branning.xml"
source_hash: "03ab946fa3b29477c95640f6e9d862ea0f731a34e1ff820616390d2383e07215"
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 2009 (2020) — Sex offenders; future contact with victim prohibited (Carly's Law).

## 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/2020/html/SB/2001-2099/SB2009IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 (Adopted)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/pdf/sam/SB2009_S_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 2009** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB2009.pdf)
4. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/SB/2001-2099/SB2009PS.htm)
5. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/pdf/ham/SB2009_H_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
6. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/SB/2001-2099/SB2009SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage as Amended — **119–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **51–0** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **45–1** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **117–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Blackwell — primary (person)
- Branning — cosponsor (person)
- Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Caughman — cosponsor (person)
- DeBar — cosponsor (person)
- DeLano — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson (15th) — cosponsor (person)
- McCaughn — cosponsor (person)
- McLendon — cosponsor (person)
- McMahan — cosponsor (person)
- Parker — cosponsor (person)
- Parks — cosponsor (person)
- Seymour — cosponsor (person)
- Sparks — cosponsor (person)
- Suber — cosponsor (person)
- Tate — cosponsor (person)
- Whaley — cosponsor (person)
- Younger — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-14T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary, Division B `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-05T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2020-03-05T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2020-03-09T05:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2020-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary B `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-09T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2020-06-16T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2020-06-16T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2020-06-17T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2020-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2020-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Wiggins,Blackwell,Thompson
- **2020-06-29T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Bain,Sanford,Newman
- **2020-06-30T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2020-06-30T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2020-07-01T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2020-07-01T05:00:00+00:00** Immediate Release
- **2020-07-01T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2020-07-01T05:00:00+00:00** Immediate Release
- **2020-07-01T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2020-07-01T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2020-07-07T05:00:00+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/01ae79c4-c0b9-4f3b-9b0a-878889faaea6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).