---
type: "Bill"
title: "Foster care and adoption; revise provisions related to per recommendations of task force."
description: "Foster care and adoption; revise provisions related to per recommendations of task force."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 2792"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2792 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Judiciary A", "Judiciary", "Division A"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wiggins"]
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/5a970734-48bb-4baa-9b33-d67a519cfea7"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2024/pdf/House_authors/Boyd.xml"
source_hash: "fd080fd1de2fd896086d9da683ca76dbf238ce1c48395504528c3ab22c2f4be8"
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 2792 (2024) — Foster care and adoption; revise provisions related to per recommendations of task force.

## 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/SB2792IN.htm)
2. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 2792** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB2792.pdf)
3. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/2700-2799/SB2792PS.htm)
4. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/pdf/ham/SB2792_H_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
5. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/2700-2799/SB2792SG.htm)

## Votes

- Adopt Conference Report — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **114–2** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **52–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **121–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Wiggins — primary (person)
- Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Sparks — 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`
- **2024-02-29T06:00:00+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 Judiciary A `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2024-04-09T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2024-04-09T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2024-04-10T05:00:00+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,Boyd,Turner-Ford
- **2024-04-16T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Hood,Yates,Fondren
- **2024-04-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2024-04-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2024-04-29T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2024-05-01T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2024-05-02T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered (Aguirre, Hood, Yates)
- **2024-05-03T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Tabled
- **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/5a970734-48bb-4baa-9b33-d67a519cfea7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).