---
type: "Bill"
title: "American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) Nurse/Allied Health Workforce Development and Retention Act; create."
description: "American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) Nurse/Allied Health Workforce Development and Retention Act; create."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 2371"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2371 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations", "Economic and Workforce Development", "Workforce Development"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Parker"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 23
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-01-16T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2023-04-17T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/31453a63-6115-4ab2-9fa2-4d056c759609"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2023/pdf/House_authors/McCaughn.xml"
source_hash: "17c0adcc71f123b79ffac2ca609e595d4e84d8e1a7a4124ee08e997cd27c4ab1"
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 2371 (2023) — American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) Nurse/Allied Health Workforce Development and Retention 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/2300-2399/SB2371IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/pdf/sam/SB2371_S_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **Amendment No 2 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/pdf/ham/SB2371_H_Amend_02.htm)
4. **Amendment No 3 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/pdf/ham/SB2371_H_Amend_03.pdf)
5. **Amendment No 4 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/pdf/ham/SB2371_H_Amend_04.pdf)
6. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 2371** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB2371.pdf)
7. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/SB/2300-2399/SB2371PS.htm)
8. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/pdf/ham/SB2371_H_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
9. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/SB/2300-2399/SB2371SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage as Amended — **118–2** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **113–4** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **52–0** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **52–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Parker — primary (person)
- McCaughn — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Economic and Workforce Development;Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-24T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: EC To AP
- **2023-01-31T06:00:00+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`
- **2023-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2023-02-14T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Workforce Development;Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-22T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPAA: WD To AP
- **2023-02-28T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPAA: AP To WD
- **2023-02-28T06:00:00+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
- **2023-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2023-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Parker,McMahan,Chassaniol
- **2023-03-21T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Bell (21st),Felsher,Anthony
- **2023-03-25T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2023-03-25T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2023-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2023-03-28T05:00:00+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
- **2023-04-17T05:00:00+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/31453a63-6115-4ab2-9fa2-4d056c759609`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).