---
type: "Bill"
title: "Nonprofit agricultural membership organization; authorize to issue health insurance and exempt from insurance regulation."
description: "Nonprofit agricultural membership organization; authorize to issue health insurance and exempt from insurance regulation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 2851"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2851 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michel"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-19T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-04-17T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0de28903-30f8-4646-9e53-d592a5cb322c"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2024/pdf/House_authors/Barnett.xml"
source_hash: "6d9f6d9ad8dc754e1dea66adcfc804faa5e768570d533a8a67ea7b5b7fece5c1"
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 2851 (2024) — Nonprofit agricultural membership organization; authorize to issue health insurance and exempt from insurance regulation.

## 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/SB2851IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/2800-2899/SB2851PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/2800-2899/SB2851SG.htm)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Michel — primary (person)
- Barnett — cosponsor (person)
- Barrett — cosponsor (person)
- Berry — cosponsor (person)
- Blackmon — cosponsor (person)
- Blackwell — cosponsor (person)
- Blount — cosponsor (person)
- Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Chassaniol — cosponsor (person)
- DeBar — cosponsor (person)
- England — cosponsor (person)
- Fillingane — cosponsor (person)
- Frazier — cosponsor (person)
- Hickman — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Hopson — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Kirby — cosponsor (person)
- McCaughn — cosponsor (person)
- McLendon — cosponsor (person)
- Norwood — cosponsor (person)
- Parker — cosponsor (person)
- Parks — cosponsor (person)
- Polk — cosponsor (person)
- Rhodes — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Seymour — cosponsor (person)
- Simmons (12th) — cosponsor (person)
- Sparks — cosponsor (person)
- Suber — cosponsor (person)
- Tate — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas — cosponsor (person)
- Turner-Ford — 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 Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-27T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-28T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2024-02-29T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2024-03-01T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2024-04-03T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-04T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2024-04-10T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-04-10T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-04-17T05:00:00+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/0de28903-30f8-4646-9e53-d592a5cb322c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).