---
type: "Bill"
title: "Workforce development; create study committee on and require agencies, departments and institutions to report certain monies related to."
description: "Workforce development; create study committee on and require agencies, departments and institutions to report certain monies related to."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 2563"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2563 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Workforce Development", "Appropriations", "Economic and Workforce Development"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Parker"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 26
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2020-02-17T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2020-07-08T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/960217a4-1f24-4b42-8ade-e746e98b885b"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2020/pdf/House_authors/Blackwell.xml"
source_hash: "cf77a6f7b189165964b77427bf3d5e86d6dad247acde9acf18bb2b30fc0a1b67"
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 2563 (2020) — Workforce development; create study committee on and require agencies, departments and institutions to report certain monies related to.

## 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/2500-2599/SB2563IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 (Cmte Sub) (Adopted)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/pdf/sam/SB2563_S_(Cmte_Sub)_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 2563** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB2563.pdf)
4. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/SB/2500-2599/SB2563PS.htm)
5. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/pdf/ham/SB2563_H_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
6. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/SB/2500-2599/SB2563CS.htm)
7. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/SB/2500-2599/SB2563SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage as Amended — **52–0** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **108–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **118–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Parker — primary (person)
- Blackwell — cosponsor (person)
- Blount — cosponsor (person)
- Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Branning — cosponsor (person)
- Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Chism — cosponsor (person)
- England — cosponsor (person)
- Frazier — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson (11th) — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson (32nd) — cosponsor (person)
- McDaniel — cosponsor (person)
- McLendon — cosponsor (person)
- Norwood — cosponsor (person)
- Simmons (12th) — cosponsor (person)
- Simmons (13th) — cosponsor (person)
- Sparks — cosponsor (person)
- Tate — cosponsor (person)
- Younger — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Economic and Workforce Development `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-26T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-10T05:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2020-03-10T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2020-03-10T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2020-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2020-03-25T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Workforce Development;Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-09T05:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPAA: WD To AP
- **2020-06-09T05:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPAA: AP To WD
- **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
- **2020-06-22T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Parker,England,Norwood
- **2020-06-23T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Bell (21st),White,Haney
- **2020-06-23T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Bell (21st),White,Read
- **2020-06-25T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2020-06-25T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2020-06-26T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2020-06-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2020-06-29T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered (Bell (21st))
- **2020-07-01T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Tabled
- **2020-07-02T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2020-07-02T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2020-07-08T05:00:00+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/960217a4-1f24-4b42-8ade-e746e98b885b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).