---
type: "Bill"
title: "Mississippi Healthy Food Families Program; create."
description: "Mississippi Healthy Food Families Program; create."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 2077"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2077 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Agriculture", "Appropriations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Younger"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2022-01-11T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-04-24T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/da176147-8057-4410-b08b-01a22cb3d520"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2022/pdf/House_authors/Barnett.xml"
source_hash: "0117b95b5dd2e9fc6f693e1f3e7cf49da29cccd22e9e24ec676773bbd6e6a885"
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 2077 (2022) — Mississippi Healthy Food Families Program; 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/2022/html/SB/2001-2099/SB2077IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 to Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/pdf/ham/SB2077_H_Amend_01_to_Amend_01.htm)
3. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 2077** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB2077.pdf)
4. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/SB/2001-2099/SB2077PS.htm)
5. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/pdf/ham/SB2077_H_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
6. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/SB/2001-2099/SB2077SG.htm)

## Votes

- Adopt Conference Report — **52–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **114–8** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **47–5** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **114–8** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Younger — primary (person)
- Barnett — cosponsor (person)
- Blount — cosponsor (person)
- Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Butler (38th) — cosponsor (person)
- Chassaniol — cosponsor (person)
- Hickman — cosponsor (person)
- Horhn — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson (11th) — cosponsor (person)
- McLendon — cosponsor (person)
- Moran — cosponsor (person)
- Norwood — cosponsor (person)
- Parker — cosponsor (person)
- Seymour — cosponsor (person)
- Simmons (12th) — cosponsor (person)
- Simmons (13th) — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas — cosponsor (person)
- Whaley — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-11T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Agriculture;Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-27T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: AG To AP
- **2022-02-01T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-09T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2022-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2022-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Agriculture `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-22T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-08T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2022-03-08T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2022-03-09T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2022-03-16T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2022-03-22T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Younger,Whaley,Jackson (11th)
- **2022-03-24T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Pigott,Mangold,Scoggin
- **2022-03-25T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2022-03-25T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2022-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2022-03-29T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2022-03-31T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2022-03-31T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2022-04-24T05:00:00+00:00** Law W/out Governor's Signature `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/da176147-8057-4410-b08b-01a22cb3d520`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).