---
type: "Bill"
title: "The Law Enforcement Officers and Fire Fighters Death Benefits Trust Fund; bring forward provision related to."
description: "The Law Enforcement Officers and Fire Fighters Death Benefits Trust Fund; bring forward provision related to."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 2487"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2487 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations", "Appropriations A"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["DeLano"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 24
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-02-16T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-05-13T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0ce6ef93-460f-4b17-af8a-6c4e37497e6e"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2024/pdf/House_authors/Barrett.xml"
source_hash: "1d5ea4012ff0c346339512f5bdf374113a064c387b5a26d32cc73c7e538b4345"
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 2487 (2024) — The Law Enforcement Officers and Fire Fighters Death Benefits Trust Fund; bring forward provision related to.

## 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/SB2487IN.htm)
2. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 2487** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB2487.pdf)
3. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/2400-2499/SB2487PS.htm)
4. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/pdf/ham/SB2487_H_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
5. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/2400-2499/SB2487CS.htm)
6. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/2400-2499/SB2487SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage as Amended — **117–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **52–0** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **122–0** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **51–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- DeLano — primary (person)
- Barrett — cosponsor (person)
- Berry — cosponsor (person)
- Blackwell — cosponsor (person)
- Blount — cosponsor (person)
- Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Branning — cosponsor (person)
- Brumfield — cosponsor (person)
- Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Chassaniol — cosponsor (person)
- Chism — cosponsor (person)
- England — cosponsor (person)
- Fillingane — cosponsor (person)
- Frazier — cosponsor (person)
- Harkins — cosponsor (person)
- Hickman — cosponsor (person)
- Horhn — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Ladner — cosponsor (person)
- McMahan — cosponsor (person)
- Parker — cosponsor (person)
- Parks — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Simmons (13th) — cosponsor (person)
- Sparks — cosponsor (person)
- Suber — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas — cosponsor (person)
- Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Whaley — cosponsor (person)
- Younger — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-16T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-05T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2024-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2024-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Appropriations A `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2024-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2024-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2024-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2024-04-12T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Hopson,DeLano,Wiggins
- **2024-04-16T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Read,Deweese,Cockerham
- **2024-04-29T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2024-04-29T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2024-04-30T05:00:00+00:00** Recommitted For Further Conf
- **2024-04-30T05:00:00+00:00** Recommitted For Further Conf
- **2024-05-01T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2024-05-01T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2024-05-02T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2024-05-02T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2024-05-06T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-05-06T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-05-13T05:00:00+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/0ce6ef93-460f-4b17-af8a-6c4e37497e6e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).