---
type: "Bill"
title: "Suffrage; restore to Larry Sills."
description: "Suffrage; restore to Larry Sills."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 3083"
citation: "Mississippi SB 3083 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Judiciary B", "Judiciary", "Division B"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McCaughn"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-03-21T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-05-14T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cef1c768-dd97-4ca7-bc3f-fe12d0240a18"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2024/pdf/Senate_authors/McCaughn.xml"
source_hash: "05156b55b79057444eb6332dfaa919bc7bf94053951457a7b8af30ea9c90b49e"
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 3083 (2024) — Suffrage; restore to Larry Sills.

## 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/3000-3099/SB3083IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/3000-3099/SB3083PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/3000-3099/SB3083SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **51–1** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **94–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- McCaughn — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-03-21T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary, Division B `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-22T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2024-04-24T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-25T05:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2024-04-25T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary B `referral-committee`
- **2024-05-01T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2024-05-02T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2024-05-03T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2024-05-06T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-05-06T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-05-14T05:00:00+00:00** Law W/out Governor's Signature `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cef1c768-dd97-4ca7-bc3f-fe12d0240a18`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).