---
type: "Bill"
title: "Highways; dedicate a section of Highway 8 to William Forrest Winter."
description: "Highways; dedicate a section of Highway 8 to William Forrest Winter."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 2643"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2643 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Highways and Transportation", "Transportation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chassaniol"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-19T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-04-15T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/44e8ef2a-7f56-482c-8aa9-e31d1afaaa8d"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2024/pdf/House_authors/Barnett.xml"
source_hash: "898f22a50cd4218afea7a8f965830bc3b0f32c815589e886e1f6e10250810e8e"
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 2643 (2024) — Highways; dedicate a section of Highway 8 to William Forrest Winter.

## 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/2600-2699/SB2643IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/2600-2699/SB2643PS.htm)
3. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/2600-2699/SB2643CS.htm)
4. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/2600-2699/SB2643SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **52–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **119–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chassaniol — primary (person)
- Barnett — cosponsor (person)
- Blackmon — cosponsor (person)
- Blount — cosponsor (person)
- Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Brumfield — cosponsor (person)
- Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Simmons (13th) — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Highways and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-28T06:00:00+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 Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2024-04-04T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-05T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2024-04-08T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-04-08T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-04-15T05:00:00+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/44e8ef2a-7f56-482c-8aa9-e31d1afaaa8d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).