---
type: "Bill"
title: "Inadequacy of service; authorizing the commission to cancel a municipality's certificate to provide service upon findings of."
description: "Inadequacy of service; authorizing the commission to cancel a municipality's certificate to provide service upon findings of."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 2453"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2453 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Energy", "Public Utilities"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Whaley"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 23
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-02-16T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-04-08T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2e7338e4-5d79-45bf-93ca-ab50d49e00e7"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2024/pdf/House_authors/Blackwell.xml"
source_hash: "e6d5da411e0cce6d172ac43eb9db73342998ec05ba07d58e2a993ddfc4fbb773"
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 2453 (2024) — Inadequacy of service; authorizing the commission to cancel a municipality's certificate to provide service upon findings of.

## 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/SB2453IN.htm)
2. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 2453** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB2453.pdf)
3. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/2400-2499/SB2453PS.htm)
4. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/pdf/ham/SB2453_H_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
5. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/2400-2499/SB2453SG.htm)

## Votes

- Concurrence in Amendment From House — **37–14** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **37–13** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **78–32** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **85–29** (pass) · lower
- Concurrence in Amendment From House — **51–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Whaley — primary (person)
- Blackwell — cosponsor (person)
- Parker — cosponsor (person)
- Younger — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-16T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Energy `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 Public Utilities `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-19T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-20T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2024-03-20T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2024-03-20T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered (Summers, Powell, Lancaster)
- **2024-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Reconsidered
- **2024-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Point of Order Raised
- **2024-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Point of Order-Not Well Taken
- **2024-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2024-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2024-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Immediate Release
- **2024-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2024-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Concurred in Amend From House
- **2024-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered
- **2024-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Reconsidered
- **2024-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Concurred in Amend From House
- **2024-04-03T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-04-03T05:00:00+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/2e7338e4-5d79-45bf-93ca-ab50d49e00e7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).