---
type: "Bill"
title: "Ballot harvesting; ban."
description: "Ballot harvesting; ban."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 2358"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2358 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Apportionment and Elections", "Elections"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tate"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 18
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-01-16T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2023-03-22T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/79fbaa47-2a05-47cf-b2c0-b1974d8bb323"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2023/pdf/House_authors/Barrett.xml"
source_hash: "76dbbcfc03d9271993bc6aca87f4b005898968782a6eea18755966943c4c0191"
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 2358 (2023) — Ballot harvesting; ban.

## 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/SB2358IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/pdf/ham/SB2358_H_Amend_01.htm)
3. **Amendment No 1 (Cmte Sub) (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/pdf/sam/SB2358_S_(Cmte_Sub)_Amend_01.pdf)
4. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 2358** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB2358.pdf)
5. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/SB/2300-2399/SB2358PS.htm)
6. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/SB/2300-2399/SB2358CS.htm)
7. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/SB/2300-2399/SB2358SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage as Amended — **37–15** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **73–44** (pass) · lower
- Concurrence in Amendment From House — **33–13** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Tate — primary (person)
- Barrett — cosponsor (person)
- Blackwell — cosponsor (person)
- Branning — 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)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- McCaughn — cosponsor (person)
- McLendon — cosponsor (person)
- McMahan — cosponsor (person)
- Michel — cosponsor (person)
- Moran — cosponsor (person)
- Parks — cosponsor (person)
- Polk — cosponsor (person)
- Seymour — cosponsor (person)
- Sojourner — cosponsor (person)
- Suber — cosponsor (person)
- Whaley — cosponsor (person)
- Wiggins — cosponsor (person)
- Williams — cosponsor (person)
- Younger — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Elections `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-26T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-07T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2023-02-07T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2023-02-07T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2023-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2023-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Apportionment and Elections `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-16T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-22T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2023-02-22T06:00:00+00:00** Tabled Subject To Call
- **2023-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2023-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered (Bailey, Wallace, Eubanks)
- **2023-03-09T06:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Tabled
- **2023-03-10T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2023-03-14T05:00:00+00:00** Concurred in Amend From House
- **2023-03-16T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2023-03-16T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2023-03-22T05:00:00+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/79fbaa47-2a05-47cf-b2c0-b1974d8bb323`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).