---
type: "Bill"
title: "Forestry Facility Grant Program; amend the fund amount and expand potential recipients of."
description: "Forestry Facility Grant Program; amend the fund amount and expand potential recipients of."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 2019"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2019 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations A", "Forestry"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McCaughn"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-16T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-13T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/40e7d2ac-3a96-4d85-828b-44dad00f7b85"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2025/pdf/Senate_authors/McCaughn.xml"
source_hash: "c16d7bab9bb5383ea666ba370d02af4a87bcb3befcec1977f0ae110170c0af24"
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 2019 (2025) — Forestry Facility Grant Program; amend the fund amount and expand potential recipients of.

## 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/2025/html/SB/2001-2099/SB2019IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/SB/2001-2099/SB2019PS.htm)
3. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/SB/2001-2099/SB2019CS.htm)
4. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/SB/2001-2099/SB2019SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **51–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **117–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- McCaughn — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Forestry `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-29T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-05T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2025-02-05T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-06T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2025-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Forestry;Appropriations A `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-03T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: FO To AP
- **2025-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: AP To FO
- **2025-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-05T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2025-03-10T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-03-13T05:00:00+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/40e7d2ac-3a96-4d85-828b-44dad00f7b85`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).