---
type: "Bill"
title: "Building Fund for the Arts; authorize Mississippi Arts Commission to retain monies for administrative costs."
description: "Building Fund for the Arts; authorize Mississippi Arts Commission to retain monies for administrative costs."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 2840"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2840 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations", "Appropriations A", "Appropriations E"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McLendon"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-19T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-04-03T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e2b8677f-f317-4f51-bd2a-6532bbd8f343"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2024/pdf/Senate_authors/McLendon.xml"
source_hash: "37febf44e9e2ac8788660ce1160caa942cdd9caf5fb4ba57fe09a319a085d36f"
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 2840 (2024) — Building Fund for the Arts; authorize Mississippi Arts Commission to retain monies for administrative costs.

## 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/2800-2899/SB2840IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/2800-2899/SB2840PS.htm)
3. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/2800-2899/SB2840CS.htm)
4. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/2800-2899/SB2840SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **118–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **52–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- McLendon — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-22T06:00:00+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 E;Appropriations A `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: A4 To AP
- **2024-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: AP To A4
- **2024-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2024-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-04-03T05:00:00+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/e2b8677f-f317-4f51-bd2a-6532bbd8f343`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).