---
type: "Bill"
title: "Appellate court expense allowance; authorize receipt for judicial duties performed in any area of the state."
description: "Appellate court expense allowance; authorize receipt for judicial duties performed in any area of the state."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 2489"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2489 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations", "Appropriations A", "Judiciary A", "Judiciary", "Division A"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wiggins"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 24
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-01-20T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-10T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c65b22d0-e07b-4b3b-9503-dd952c951875"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2025/pdf/House_authors/McCaughn.xml"
source_hash: "736787c7c202773f97314014497786471420b880031adc2f9925b91caf448909"
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 2489 (2025) — Appellate court expense allowance; authorize receipt for judicial duties performed in any area of the state.

## 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/2400-2499/SB2489IN.htm)
2. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 2489** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB2489.pdf)
3. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/SB/2400-2499/SB2489PS.htm)
4. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/ham/SB2489_H_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
5. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/SB/2400-2499/SB2489SG.htm)

## Votes

- Adopt Conference Report — **109–1** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **114–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **48–2** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **43–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Wiggins — primary (person)
- McCaughn — cosponsor (person)
- Sparks — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-20T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary, Division A;Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-28T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: JA To AP
- **2025-02-04T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-07T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2025-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary A;Appropriations A `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-27T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPAA: JA To AP
- **2025-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPAA: AP To JA
- **2025-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2025-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2025-03-10T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2025-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Wiggins,Thompson,Turner-Ford
- **2025-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Hood,Yates,Cockerham
- **2025-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2025-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2025-03-29T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2025-04-01T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2025-04-01T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered (Yates, Hood)
- **2025-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Tabled
- **2025-04-07T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-04-07T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-04-10T05:00:00+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/c65b22d0-e07b-4b3b-9503-dd952c951875`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).