---
type: "Bill"
title: "Circuit clerk fees; increase fee for each day's attendance of clerk and deputies upon court term."
description: "Circuit clerk fees; increase fee for each day's attendance of clerk and deputies upon court term."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 2562"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2562 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Accountability", "Efficiency", "Transparency", "County Affairs"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barrett"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-20T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-06T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bef224a5-56ad-4876-b1c1-66d840de44c9"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2025/pdf/House_authors/Butler.xml"
source_hash: "1dc79e6863d9c2e38f630814462dd8c3966604274bf4f4e5c26dbfe2865548f4"
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 2562 (2025) — Circuit clerk fees; increase fee for each day's attendance of clerk and deputies upon court term.

## 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/2500-2599/SB2562IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/SB/2500-2599/SB2562PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/SB/2500-2599/SB2562SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **51–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **118–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Barrett — primary (person)
- Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Norwood — cosponsor (person)
- Simmons (12th) — cosponsor (person)
- Simmons (13th) — cosponsor (person)
- Tate — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-20T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-04T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered
- **2025-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Tabled
- **2025-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2025-02-14T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To County Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-25T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-27T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-28T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2025-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-03-06T06:00:00+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/bef224a5-56ad-4876-b1c1-66d840de44c9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).