---
type: "Bill"
title: "PERS; revise employer contribution rate increase, and redefine responsibilities of board and Legislature."
description: "PERS; revise employer contribution rate increase, and redefine responsibilities of board and Legislature."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 3231"
citation: "Mississippi SB 3231 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Accountability", "Efficiency", "Transparency", "State Affairs"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Parker"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-04-26T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-05-09T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bc7841f6-e95b-44f6-b047-750fc432ec6e"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2024/pdf/Senate_authors/Parker.xml"
source_hash: "9ed3b39a21862e1828a8045e8a9519d77f7a0fdca7a1723952bfec19b7b443cc"
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 3231 (2024) — PERS; revise employer contribution rate increase, and redefine responsibilities of board and Legislature.

## 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/3200-3299/SB3231IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/3200-3299/SB3231PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/3200-3299/SB3231SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **107–1** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **34–14** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Parker — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-04-26T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-26T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2024-04-26T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-26T05:00:00+00:00** Immediate Release
- **2024-04-26T05:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2024-04-26T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To State Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-27T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2024-04-27T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-27T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered (Johnson, Zuber)
- **2024-04-28T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Tabled
- **2024-04-28T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2024-04-29T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-04-29T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-05-09T05:00:00+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/bc7841f6-e95b-44f6-b047-750fc432ec6e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).