---
type: "Bill"
title: "Right-to-Try Act; revise definitions to include traumatic injury and adult autologous mesenchymal stem cell."
description: "Right-to-Try Act; revise definitions to include traumatic injury and adult autologous mesenchymal stem cell."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 2830"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2830 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Health and Human Services", "Public Health and Welfare"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Harkins"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-17T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2020-06-25T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2ceafee8-9fa7-4d8f-9e83-8c198b48dfe4"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2020/pdf/House_authors/Jackson_(11th).xml"
source_hash: "f2dfb94ded71d2226c2cefd64a5a8670f9d71a985fa6b7c3467267a05030cedd"
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 2830 (2020) — Right-to-Try Act; revise definitions to include traumatic injury and adult autologous mesenchymal stem cell.

## 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/2800-2899/SB2830IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/SB/2800-2899/SB2830PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/SB/2800-2899/SB2830SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **114–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **50–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Harkins — primary (person)
- Jackson (11th) — cosponsor (person)
- Jordan — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Public Health and Welfare `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-03T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-09T05:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2020-03-25T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Public Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-03T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-06-12T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2020-06-15T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2020-06-19T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2020-06-19T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2020-06-25T05:00:00+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/2ceafee8-9fa7-4d8f-9e83-8c198b48dfe4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).