---
type: "Bill"
title: "Volunteer firefighters; allow local governments to pay certain expenses for injury, illness and insurance."
description: "Volunteer firefighters; allow local governments to pay certain expenses for injury, illness and insurance."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 2357"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2357 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michel"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2022-01-17T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-04-22T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/995d3c6c-4d85-4f67-af00-9875d0addedf"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2022/pdf/House_authors/Barnett.xml"
source_hash: "db83f8e6dca8f0d053169c62e4919ecfa5b354cf701f2f2d14310ae50ca3d8d9"
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 2357 (2022) — Volunteer firefighters; allow local governments to pay certain expenses for injury, illness and insurance.

## 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/2300-2399/SB2357IN.htm)
2. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 2357** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB2357.pdf)
3. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/SB/2300-2399/SB2357PS.htm)
4. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/pdf/ham/SB2357_H_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
5. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/SB/2300-2399/SB2357SG.htm)

## Votes

- Adopt Conference Report — **121–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **52–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **120–0** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **52–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Michel — primary (person)
- Barnett — cosponsor (person)
- Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Branning — cosponsor (person)
- Butler (36th) — cosponsor (person)
- Butler (38th) — cosponsor (person)
- Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Caughman — cosponsor (person)
- Chism — cosponsor (person)
- DeLano — cosponsor (person)
- England — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson (11th) — cosponsor (person)
- Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- McCaughn — cosponsor (person)
- McLendon — cosponsor (person)
- Moran — cosponsor (person)
- Parker — cosponsor (person)
- Parks — cosponsor (person)
- Seymour — cosponsor (person)
- Simmons (12th) — cosponsor (person)
- Simmons (13th) — cosponsor (person)
- Suber — cosponsor (person)
- Tate — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas — cosponsor (person)
- Whaley — cosponsor (person)
- Younger — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-17T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-20T06:00:00+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`
- **2022-02-16T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-23T06:00:00+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
- **2022-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2022-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Michel,Blackwell,DeLano
- **2022-03-22T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Zuber,Ford (54th),Robinson
- **2022-03-25T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2022-03-25T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2022-03-28T05:00:00+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
- **2022-04-22T05:00:00+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/995d3c6c-4d85-4f67-af00-9875d0addedf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).