---
type: "Bill"
title: "Mississippi Hospital Sustainability Grant Program; establish and provide eligibility for funds."
description: "Mississippi Hospital Sustainability Grant Program; establish and provide eligibility for funds."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 2372"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2372 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blackwell"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 21
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/2f80b972-c436-4705-a528-51446aedb9ac"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2023/pdf/House_authors/Hickman.xml"
source_hash: "a2144cc0080880155ef8d834370c7cf540ba04ee81acb3c884ed63500e98c7cc"
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 2372 (2023) — Mississippi Hospital Sustainability Grant Program; establish and provide eligibility for funds.

## 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/SB2372IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/pdf/ham/SB2372_H_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 2372** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB2372.pdf)
4. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/SB/2300-2399/SB2372PS.htm)
5. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/SB/2300-2399/SB2372CS.htm)
6. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/SB/2300-2399/SB2372SG.htm)

## Votes

- Adopt Conference Report — **52–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **51–0** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **111–2** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **112–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Blackwell — primary (person)
- Hickman — cosponsor (person)
- Jordan — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-31T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-09T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2023-02-09T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2023-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2023-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-28T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-02T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2023-03-02T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2023-03-03T06:00:00+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 Hopson,Blackwell,Polk
- **2023-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Read,Mims,Bounds
- **2023-03-25T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Read,Mims,White
- **2023-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2023-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2023-03-28T05:00:00+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/2f80b972-c436-4705-a528-51446aedb9ac`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).