---
type: "Bill"
title: "Forestry; create the Forestry Facility Grant Program."
description: "Forestry; create the Forestry Facility Grant Program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 2525"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2525 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations", "Finance", "Forestry"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McCaughn"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-01-16T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2023-03-10T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/afab54de-8412-46ae-a95d-32eac89e6401"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2023/pdf/House_authors/Hickman.xml"
source_hash: "3ac2828633e499ef3ac7011d855695a9ce422bec6f2489b6839951e6e9703cc2"
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 2525 (2023) — Forestry; create the Forestry Facility Grant Program.

## 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/2500-2599/SB2525IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/SB/2500-2599/SB2525PS.htm)
3. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/SB/2500-2599/SB2525CS.htm)
4. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/SB/2500-2599/SB2525SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **113–4** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **50–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- McCaughn — primary (person)
- Hickman — cosponsor (person)
- Seymour — cosponsor (person)
- Suber — cosponsor (person)
- Tate — cosponsor (person)
- Whaley — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Forestry;Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-25T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPCS: FO To FI
- **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`
- **2023-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Forestry;Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-21T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: FO To AP
- **2023-02-28T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: AP To FO
- **2023-02-28T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-01T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2023-03-02T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2023-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2023-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2023-03-10T06:00:00+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/afab54de-8412-46ae-a95d-32eac89e6401`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).