---
type: "Bill"
title: "SAFER Act; enact."
description: "SAFER Act; enact."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 2753"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2753 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Judiciary A", "Judiciary", "Division A"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Harkins"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 24
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/490c5354-a6e5-4d27-a022-457f8d891839"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2024/pdf/House_authors/Barrett.xml"
source_hash: "e439df0b37e5889a8db8b8f9cb0969ed361459b0f3414c3e0e38bf61a111bed7"
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 2753 (2024) — SAFER Act; enact.

## 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/2700-2799/SB2753IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 2 (Adopted) ({Vote})** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/pdf/ham/SB2753_H_Amend_02.pdf)
3. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 2753** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB2753.pdf)
4. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/2700-2799/SB2753PS.htm)
5. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/2700-2799/SB2753CS.htm)
6. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/2700-2799/SB2753SG.htm)

## Votes

- Adopt Conference Report — **85–29** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **33–8** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **40–12** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **80–31** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Harkins — primary (person)
- Barrett — cosponsor (person)
- Berry — cosponsor (person)
- Blackwell — cosponsor (person)
- England — cosponsor (person)
- Fillingane — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- McCaughn — cosponsor (person)
- McLendon — cosponsor (person)
- McMahan — cosponsor (person)
- Parker — cosponsor (person)
- Parks — cosponsor (person)
- Rhodes — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Seymour — cosponsor (person)
- Sparks — cosponsor (person)
- Suber — cosponsor (person)
- Tate — cosponsor (person)
- Whaley — cosponsor (person)
- Williams — cosponsor (person)
- Younger — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary, Division A `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-05T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2024-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-14T05:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2024-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary A `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2024-04-10T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2024-04-10T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2024-04-10T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered (Summers, Hood, Yates)
- **2024-04-11T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Tabled
- **2024-04-11T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2024-04-12T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2024-04-12T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Wiggins,Hopson,Harkins
- **2024-04-16T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Hood,Yates,Hurst
- **2024-04-29T05:00:00+00:00** Died In Conference
- **2024-05-02T05:00:00+00:00** Suspend from Deadlines by SC 549
- **2024-05-02T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2024-05-02T05:00:00+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/490c5354-a6e5-4d27-a022-457f8d891839`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).