---
type: "Bill"
title: "Appropriation; additional to Department of Health."
description: "Appropriation; additional to Department of Health."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 2170"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2170 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations", "Appropriations A", "Appropriations D"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blackwell"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 22
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-02-02T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-05-08T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/61eb4859-a61c-436c-9de7-824efede160e"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2024/pdf/Senate_authors/Blackwell.xml"
source_hash: "9e6d6d2f4853e85021bbfa4cd6641647dfa3c8f61a5b49a27208e9317ab3fc6c"
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 2170 (2024) — Appropriation; additional to Department of Health.

## 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/SB2170IN.htm)
2. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 2170** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB2170.pdf)
3. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/2100-2199/SB2170PS.htm)
4. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/pdf/ham/SB2170_H_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
5. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/2100-2199/SB2170SG.htm)

## Votes

- Adopt Conference Report — **52–0** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **120–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **51–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **118–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Blackwell — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-02T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-22T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-08T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2024-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Appropriations D;Appropriations A `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-09T05:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPAA: A3 To AP
- **2024-04-09T05:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPAA: AP To A3
- **2024-04-09T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2024-04-10T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2024-04-10T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2024-04-10T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2024-04-11T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2024-04-12T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Hopson,Blackwell,Polk
- **2024-04-16T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Mims,Read,Oliver
- **2024-04-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2024-04-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2024-04-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2024-04-28T05:00:00+00:00** Immediate Release
- **2024-04-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2024-05-01T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-05-01T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-05-08T05:00:00+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/61eb4859-a61c-436c-9de7-824efede160e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).