---
type: "Bill"
title: "Alcoholic beverages; revise penalties for sale to minors."
description: "Alcoholic beverages; revise penalties for sale to minors."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 2596"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2596 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Judiciary B", "Ways and Means", "Finance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["DeLano"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 22
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/0b0801e8-eea7-4468-aaaa-0b8a23b363e3"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2020/pdf/Senate_authors/DeLano.xml"
source_hash: "7d3d6ef3c81d6dff86d8502764f8bacd6cb8a4c30013c44cb7435b48e67ecb4e"
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 2596 (2020) — Alcoholic beverages; revise penalties for sale to minors.

## 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/SB2596IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 (Adopted)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/pdf/sam/SB2596_S_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **Amendment No 2 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/pdf/ham/SB2596_H_Amend_02.pdf)
4. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 2596** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB2596.pdf)
5. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/SB/2500-2599/SB2596PS.htm)
6. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/SB/2500-2599/SB2596SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage as Amended — **45–7** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **109–1** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **116–3** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **49–3** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- DeLano — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-27T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2020-03-11T05:00:00+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 Judiciary B;Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-09T05:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPAA: JB To WM
- **2020-06-09T05:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPAA: WM To JB
- **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
- **2020-06-23T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2020-06-24T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Harkins,Boyd,DeLano
- **2020-06-26T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Bain,Yates,Sanford
- **2020-06-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2020-06-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2020-06-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2020-06-29T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **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/0b0801e8-eea7-4468-aaaa-0b8a23b363e3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).