---
type: "Bill"
title: "Hospital police department; authorize for certain private entities."
description: "Hospital police department; authorize for certain private entities."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 2347"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2347 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Judiciary B", "Judiciary", "Division B"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["England"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-01-16T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2023-03-16T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9529881f-9e50-4576-b8e5-8c87d951f352"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2023/pdf/House_authors/Thompson.xml"
source_hash: "d1186e3e8b58cd2bf913767e1ee56135d2e5e32cd920c741e0e6c6787e8eb25b"
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 2347 (2023) — Hospital police department; authorize for certain private entities.

## 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/2300-2399/SB2347IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/pdf/sam/SB2347_S_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/SB/2300-2399/SB2347PS.htm)
4. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/SB/2300-2399/SB2347SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **99–13** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **47–5** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- England — primary (person)
- Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Wiggins — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary, Division B `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-26T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-08T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2023-02-08T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2023-02-09T06:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered
- **2023-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Tabled
- **2023-02-14T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2023-02-14T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary B `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-28T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2023-03-08T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2023-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2023-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2023-03-16T05:00:00+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/9529881f-9e50-4576-b8e5-8c87d951f352`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).