---
type: "Bill"
title: "Appropriation; Veterans Affairs Board."
description: "Appropriation; Veterans Affairs Board."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 2940"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2940 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hopson"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2020-05-27T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2020-07-07T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ffffa556-29d5-4b84-9ef4-c396d760a1b5"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2020/pdf/House_authors/DeLano.xml"
source_hash: "e290681d23be366c4e5962eb1f2b61661829ac7ee7c641441fcf3b4dc0d4583a"
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 2940 (2020) — Appropriation; Veterans Affairs Board.

## 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/2900-2999/SB2940IN.htm)
2. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 2940** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB2940.pdf)
3. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/SB/2900-2999/SB2940PS.htm)
4. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/pdf/ham/SB2940_H_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
5. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/SB/2900-2999/SB2940SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage as Amended — **115–2** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **115–2** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **51–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **50–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hopson — primary (person)
- DeLano — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson (15th) — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Wiggins — cosponsor (person)
- Witherspoon — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-05-27T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-28T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-05-28T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2020-06-01T05:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2020-06-02T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-15T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2020-06-15T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2020-06-15T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2020-06-16T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2020-06-17T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2020-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Hopson,Johnson,Seymour
- **2020-06-22T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Read,Huddleston,Barton
- **2020-06-26T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2020-06-26T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2020-06-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2020-06-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **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/ffffa556-29d5-4b84-9ef4-c396d760a1b5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).