---
type: "Bill"
title: "Mississippi Department of Marine Resources; authorize oyster lease reconfiguration and make technical amendments."
description: "Mississippi Department of Marine Resources; authorize oyster lease reconfiguration and make technical amendments."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 2648"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2648 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Marine Resources", "Ports and Marine Resources"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Thompson"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-02-19T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-05-13T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4b353c19-374b-4307-ae43-8405bd2f93ce"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2024/pdf/Senate_authors/Thompson.xml"
source_hash: "76def00b4ffaa03afbbabc71bde544343c6b29454042b552bd0caa948ed9a96b"
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 2648 (2024) — Mississippi Department of Marine Resources; authorize oyster lease reconfiguration and make technical amendments.

## 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/SB2648IN.htm)
2. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 2648** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB2648.pdf)
3. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/2600-2699/SB2648PS.htm)
4. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/pdf/ham/SB2648_H_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
5. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/2600-2699/SB2648SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **52–0** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **51–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **119–0** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **117–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Thompson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Ports and Marine Resources `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-28T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2024-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Marine Resources `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2024-04-03T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2024-04-03T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2024-04-04T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2024-04-12T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2024-04-15T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Thompson,England,Brumfield
- **2024-04-16T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Anderson (122nd),McKnight,Fondren
- **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** Conference Report Adopted
- **2024-04-30T05:00:00+00:00** Immediate Release
- **2024-05-01T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2024-05-01T05:00:00+00:00** Immediate Release
- **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/4b353c19-374b-4307-ae43-8405bd2f93ce`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).