---
type: "Bill"
title: "Mississippi Dementia Care Program, Food Bank Pilot Programming; create."
description: "Mississippi Dementia Care Program, Food Bank Pilot Programming; create."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 2221"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2221 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations", "Public Health and Welfare"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Boyd"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 18
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-01-08T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-10T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/18114109-b77a-4d48-b49f-b56bea59a410"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2021/pdf/House_authors/Barnett.xml"
source_hash: "b1258e19bcf9c22df3539e3c0f7aa8a5c9f35fff21474716db2de64611aada19"
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 2221 (2021) — Mississippi Dementia Care Program, Food Bank Pilot Programming; 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/2021/html/SB/2200-2299/SB2221IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 (Cmte Sub) (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/pdf/sam/SB2221_S_(Cmte_Sub)_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **Amendment No 1 to Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/pdf/ham/SB2221_H_Amend_01_to_Amend_01.pdf)
4. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 2221** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB2221.pdf)
5. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/SB/2200-2299/SB2221PS.htm)
6. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/pdf/ham/SB2221_H_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
7. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/SB/2200-2299/SB2221CS.htm)
8. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/SB/2200-2299/SB2221SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage as Amended — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- Concurrence in Amendment From House — **51–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **120–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Boyd — primary (person)
- Barnett — cosponsor (person)
- Barrett — cosponsor (person)
- Blackwell — cosponsor (person)
- Branning — cosponsor (person)
- Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Caughman — cosponsor (person)
- Chassaniol — cosponsor (person)
- DeLano — cosponsor (person)
- England — cosponsor (person)
- Fillingane — cosponsor (person)
- Frazier — cosponsor (person)
- Horhn — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson (11th) — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson (32nd) — cosponsor (person)
- Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- McCaughn — cosponsor (person)
- McLendon — cosponsor (person)
- Moran — cosponsor (person)
- Norwood — cosponsor (person)
- Parker — cosponsor (person)
- Parks — cosponsor (person)
- Seymour — cosponsor (person)
- Simmons (12th) — cosponsor (person)
- Simmons (13th) — cosponsor (person)
- Sparks — cosponsor (person)
- Suber — cosponsor (person)
- Tate — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas — cosponsor (person)
- Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Whaley — cosponsor (person)
- Williams — cosponsor (person)
- Younger — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-08T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Public Health and Welfare;Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-02T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPCS: PH To AP
- **2021-02-02T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2021-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2021-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2021-02-22T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2021-02-24T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-25T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-03T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-03T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2021-03-03T06:00:00+00:00** Immediate Release
- **2021-03-03T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2021-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** Concurred in Amend From House
- **2021-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** Immediate Release
- **2021-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2021-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2021-03-10T06:00:00+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/18114109-b77a-4d48-b49f-b56bea59a410`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).