---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Domestic Violence Fund; remove the matching funds requirement for."
description: "State Domestic Violence Fund; remove the matching funds requirement for."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 695"
citation: "Mississippi HB 695 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations", "Judiciary A", "Judiciary", "Division A"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cockerham"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-18T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-16T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c83a0f1c-6fd9-42ec-bfab-332d30bd4d4c"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2021/pdf/House_authors/Cockerham.xml"
source_hash: "e76fab303721848de64ea4a17c02a8ebe78266f54e6cb2e096e8ad5546c04c53"
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 HB 695 (2021) — State Domestic Violence Fund; remove the matching funds requirement for.

## 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/2021/html/HB/0600-0699/HB0695IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/HB/0600-0699/HB0695PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/HB/0600-0699/HB0695SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **117–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **52–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cockerham — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-18T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary A `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-28T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-09T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2021-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2021-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary, Division A;Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-02T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: JA To AP
- **2021-03-02T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2021-03-08T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2021-03-09T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2021-03-09T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2021-03-16T05:00:00+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/c83a0f1c-6fd9-42ec-bfab-332d30bd4d4c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).