---
type: "Bill"
title: "Mississippi Department of Employment Security; revise various provisions regarding authority of."
description: "Mississippi Department of Employment Security; revise various provisions regarding authority of."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 2124"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2124 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Economic and Workforce Development", "Workforce Development"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Parker"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-08T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-17T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5fe797a5-f307-441b-840d-88f136ee2809"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2021/pdf/Senate_authors/Parker.xml"
source_hash: "2a8e02e72ffb129d8b4bd0ec52d25063178d285c3962d0a16e3ceda6f0be8042"
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 2124 (2021) — Mississippi Department of Employment Security; revise various provisions regarding authority of.

## 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/SB/2100-2199/SB2124IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/SB/2100-2199/SB2124PS.htm)
3. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/SB/2100-2199/SB2124CS.htm)
4. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/SB/2100-2199/SB2124SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **117–4** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **49–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Parker — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-08T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Economic and Workforce Development `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-27T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-03T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2021-02-03T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2021-02-04T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2021-02-24T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Workforce Development `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-02T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-09T06:00:00+00:00** Amendment Tabled
- **2021-03-09T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2021-03-10T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2021-03-12T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2021-03-12T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2021-03-17T05:00:00+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/5fe797a5-f307-441b-840d-88f136ee2809`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).