---
type: "Bill"
title: "Department of Public Safety; revise salaries of officers."
description: "Department of Public Safety; revise salaries of officers."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 2120"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2120 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hopson"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 22
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2022-01-13T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-04-22T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/020a4437-55e1-4d77-9b49-024822ca0125"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2022/pdf/House_authors/Barnett.xml"
source_hash: "16440e908b73f3a6f285a041e4e20e608383ff3c63aa90dead5ea5b9f94b7bc9"
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 2120 (2022) — Department of Public Safety; revise salaries of officers.

## 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/2100-2199/SB2120IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 (Cmte Sub) (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/pdf/sam/SB2120_S_(Cmte_Sub)_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 2120** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB2120.pdf)
4. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/SB/2100-2199/SB2120PS.htm)
5. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/pdf/ham/SB2120_H_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
6. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/SB/2100-2199/SB2120CS.htm)
7. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/SB/2100-2199/SB2120SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage as Amended — **119–2** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **52–0** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **119–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **51–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hopson — primary (person)
- Barnett — cosponsor (person)
- Barrett — cosponsor (person)
- Blackmon — cosponsor (person)
- Blackwell — cosponsor (person)
- Blount — cosponsor (person)
- Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Branning — cosponsor (person)
- Bryan — cosponsor (person)
- Butler (36th) — cosponsor (person)
- Butler (38th) — cosponsor (person)
- Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Caughman — cosponsor (person)
- Chassaniol — cosponsor (person)
- Chism — cosponsor (person)
- DeBar — cosponsor (person)
- DeLano — cosponsor (person)
- England — cosponsor (person)
- Fillingane — cosponsor (person)
- Frazier — cosponsor (person)
- Harkins — cosponsor (person)
- Hickman — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Horhn — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson (11th) — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Kirby — cosponsor (person)
- McCaughn — cosponsor (person)
- McDaniel — cosponsor (person)
- McLendon — cosponsor (person)
- McMahan — cosponsor (person)
- Michel — cosponsor (person)
- Moran — cosponsor (person)
- Norwood — cosponsor (person)
- Parker — cosponsor (person)
- Parks — cosponsor (person)
- Polk — cosponsor (person)
- Seymour — cosponsor (person)
- Simmons (12th) — cosponsor (person)
- Simmons (13th) — cosponsor (person)
- Sojourner — cosponsor (person)
- Sparks — cosponsor (person)
- Suber — cosponsor (person)
- Tate — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas — cosponsor (person)
- Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Turner-Ford — cosponsor (person)
- Whaley — cosponsor (person)
- Wiggins — cosponsor (person)
- Williams — cosponsor (person)
- Younger — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-13T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-20T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2022-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2022-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2022-02-15T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2022-02-16T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-24T06:00:00+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
- **2022-03-21T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Hopson,Blackwell,Thompson
- **2022-03-22T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Read,Oliver,Cockerham
- **2022-03-29T05:00:00+00:00** Suspend from Deadlines by HC 89
- **2022-03-31T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2022-03-31T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2022-04-01T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2022-04-01T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2022-04-06T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2022-04-06T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2022-04-22T05:00:00+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/020a4437-55e1-4d77-9b49-024822ca0125`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).