---
type: "Bill"
title: "Mississippi Back-to-Business Liability Assurance and Health Care Emergency Response Liability Protection Act; create."
description: "Mississippi Back-to-Business Liability Assurance and Health Care Emergency Response Liability Protection Act; create."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 3049"
citation: "Mississippi SB 3049 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Rules", "Judiciary", "Division A"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Doty"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-06-22T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2020-07-08T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ac3eaed4-cf80-4581-b019-6a603aea9faa"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2020/pdf/House_authors/Blackwell.xml"
source_hash: "9d69dedb3553e869e62536e800d4a4d0a8ac8351c64d9e997f960841c0609993"
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 3049 (2020) — Mississippi Back-to-Business Liability Assurance and Health Care Emergency Response Liability Protection Act; create.

## 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/3000-3099/SB3049IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 (Adopted)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/pdf/ham/SB3049_H_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 3049** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB3049.pdf)
4. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/SB/3000-3099/SB3049PS.htm)
5. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/SB/3000-3099/SB3049SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage as Amended — **75–36** (pass) · lower
- Concurrence in Amendment From House — **28–11** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **39–12** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Doty — primary (person)
- Blackwell — cosponsor (person)
- Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Branning — cosponsor (person)
- Caughman — cosponsor (person)
- Chassaniol — cosponsor (person)
- Chism — cosponsor (person)
- DeBar — cosponsor (person)
- DeLano — cosponsor (person)
- England — cosponsor (person)
- Harkins — cosponsor (person)
- McDaniel — cosponsor (person)
- McLendon — cosponsor (person)
- McMahan — cosponsor (person)
- Moran — cosponsor (person)
- Parker — cosponsor (person)
- Parks — cosponsor (person)
- Seymour — cosponsor (person)
- Sojourner — cosponsor (person)
- Sparks — cosponsor (person)
- Tate — cosponsor (person)
- Whaley — cosponsor (person)
- Younger — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-22T05:00:00+00:00** Suspend from Deadlines by HC 69
- **2020-06-22T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary, Division A `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-23T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-06-24T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2020-06-24T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2020-06-25T05:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2020-06-29T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Rules `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-29T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-06-30T05:00:00+00:00** Tabled Subject To Call
- **2020-06-30T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2020-06-30T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2020-06-30T05:00:00+00:00** Immediate Release
- **2020-07-01T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2020-07-01T05:00:00+00:00** Concurred in Amend From House
- **2020-07-01T05:00:00+00:00** Immediate Release
- **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/ac3eaed4-cf80-4581-b019-6a603aea9faa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).