---
type: "Bill"
title: "Chancery court; revise provisions concerning adoption and name change of incarcerated persons."
description: "Chancery court; revise provisions concerning adoption and name change of incarcerated persons."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 2263"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2263 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Judiciary B", "Judiciary", "Division B"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryan"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2022-01-17T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-04-14T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/472b7b07-e976-4be8-99a6-21bad505467a"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2022/pdf/House_authors/Fillingane.xml"
source_hash: "1894b90a67de94fa53347fb99eeabd3bb6912b0617fd3bdb87637e624f5176c5"
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 2263 (2022) — Chancery court; revise provisions concerning adoption and name change of incarcerated persons.

## 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/2200-2299/SB2263IN.htm)
2. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 2263** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB2263.pdf)
3. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/SB/2200-2299/SB2263PS.htm)
4. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/pdf/ham/SB2263_H_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
5. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/SB/2200-2299/SB2263SG.htm)

## Votes

- Adopt Conference Report — **52–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **51–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **119–0** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **120–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bryan — primary (person)
- Fillingane — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-17T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary, Division B `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-26T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-07T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2022-02-08T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2022-02-09T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary B `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-01T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-08T06:00:00+00:00** Read the Third Time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-09T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2022-03-09T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2022-03-10T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2022-03-16T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2022-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Fillingane,Turner-Ford,McCaughn
- **2022-03-23T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Bain,Steverson,Owen
- **2022-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2022-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2022-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2022-03-30T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2022-04-04T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2022-04-04T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2022-04-14T05:00:00+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/472b7b07-e976-4be8-99a6-21bad505467a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).