---
type: "Bill"
title: "Mississippi Rare Disease Advisory Council; create at UMMC."
description: "Mississippi Rare Disease Advisory Council; create at UMMC."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 2156"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2156 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Health and Human Services", "Public Health and Welfare"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blackwell"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-02T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-04-08T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ef95b775-93f1-42d0-9120-ab5029030980"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2024/pdf/House_authors/Boyd.xml"
source_hash: "a70e22ca4d79351e8a803eef45a657ddfdeaade52c2903e6f5a85d3f963afcc5"
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 2156 (2024) — Mississippi Rare Disease Advisory Council; create at UMMC.

## 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/2024/html/SB/2100-2199/SB2156IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/2100-2199/SB2156PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/2100-2199/SB2156SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **120–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **52–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Blackwell — primary (person)
- Boyd — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-02T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Public Health and Welfare `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-05T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-14T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-15T05:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2024-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Public Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-29T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2024-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-04-08T05:00:00+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/ef95b775-93f1-42d0-9120-ab5029030980`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).