---
type: "Bill"
title: "Ballot harvesting; define terms."
description: "Ballot harvesting; define terms."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 2425"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2425 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Apportionment and Elections", "Elections"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tate"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 14
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-02-16T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-04-22T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dfc2b5c7-21ce-4194-8bdb-afd5fc9740d1"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2024/pdf/Senate_authors/Tate.xml"
source_hash: "d60c693417438c50380a8788806562d391cebd09ed5401db01bce544023b8ed5"
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 2425 (2024) — Ballot harvesting; define terms.

## 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/2400-2499/SB2425IN.htm)
2. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 2425** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB2425.pdf)
3. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/2400-2499/SB2425PS.htm)
4. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) ({Vote})** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/pdf/ham/SB2425_H_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
5. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/2400-2499/SB2425CS.htm)
6. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/2400-2499/SB2425SG.htm)

## Votes

- Concurrence in Amendment From House — **36–14** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **80–41** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **47–4** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Tate — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-16T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Elections `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-29T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **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 Apportionment and Elections `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2024-04-04T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2024-04-04T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2024-04-05T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2024-04-15T05:00:00+00:00** Concurred in Amend From House
- **2024-04-17T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-04-17T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-04-22T05:00:00+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/dfc2b5c7-21ce-4194-8bdb-afd5fc9740d1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).