---
type: "Bill"
title: "MS School Safety Guardian Act; create."
description: "MS School Safety Guardian Act; create."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 2079"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2079 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education", "Judiciary B", "Judiciary", "Division A"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hill"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 21
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-01-09T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2023-04-11T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/25360f61-538f-414c-9622-9374926c5e88"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2023/pdf/House_authors/Blackwell.xml"
source_hash: "ac4b6fa9db9c1e91ad0cc69f7791e2d2bb388326d09e4efdd344dec2b9aa0daa"
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 2079 (2023) — MS School Safety Guardian Act; 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/2023/html/SB/2001-2099/SB2079IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 to Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/pdf/ham/SB2079_H_Amend_01_to_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **Amendment No 2 to Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/pdf/ham/SB2079_H_Amend_02_to_Amend_01.pdf)
4. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 2079** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB2079.pdf)
5. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/SB/2001-2099/SB2079PS.htm)
6. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/pdf/ham/SB2079_H_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
7. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/SB/2001-2099/SB2079CS.htm)
8. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/SB/2001-2099/SB2079SG.htm)

## Votes

- Adopt Conference Report — **38–14** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **79–32** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **39–12** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **80–35** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hill — primary (person)
- Blackwell — cosponsor (person)
- Branning — cosponsor (person)
- Caughman — cosponsor (person)
- Chassaniol — cosponsor (person)
- Chism — cosponsor (person)
- England — cosponsor (person)
- Fillingane — cosponsor (person)
- McCaughn — cosponsor (person)
- McLendon — cosponsor (person)
- Moran — cosponsor (person)
- Seymour — cosponsor (person)
- Sojourner — cosponsor (person)
- Tate — cosponsor (person)
- Whaley — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-09T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Education;Judiciary, Division A `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-31T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPCS: ED To JA
- **2023-01-31T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-08T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2023-02-08T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2023-02-09T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2023-02-20T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary B `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-23T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2023-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2023-03-08T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2023-03-15T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2023-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named DeBar,Hill,Polk
- **2023-03-22T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Bain,Horan,Ford (73rd)
- **2023-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2023-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2023-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2023-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2023-03-31T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2023-03-31T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2023-04-11T05:00:00+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/25360f61-538f-414c-9622-9374926c5e88`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).