---
type: "Bill"
title: "Youth court; revise timeline for permanency hearings."
description: "Youth court; revise timeline for permanency hearings."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 2771"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2771 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Judiciary A", "Judiciary", "Division A", "Youth and Family Affairs"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Boyd"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-20T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-24T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/edf9291d-d697-4edc-a316-9ff175ad423e"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2025/pdf/Senate_authors/Boyd.xml"
source_hash: "2de7f0f4a45ad850ea0ea20bafab3c5c7fd4b61bdfe34c5af88077600a80133a"
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 2771 (2025) — Youth court; revise timeline for permanency hearings.

## 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/2700-2799/SB2771IN.htm)
2. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 2771** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB2771.pdf)
3. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/SB/2700-2799/SB2771PS.htm)
4. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/ham/SB2771_H_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
5. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/SB/2700-2799/SB2771CS.htm)
6. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/SB/2700-2799/SB2771SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **50–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **117–0** (pass) · lower
- Concurrence in Amendment From House — **51–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Boyd — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-20T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary, Division A `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-04T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-07T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **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 Youth and Family Affairs;Judiciary A `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-03T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPAA: YF To JA
- **2025-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPAA: JA To YF
- **2025-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2025-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2025-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Concurred in Amend From House
- **2025-03-19T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-03-19T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-03-24T05:00:00+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/edf9291d-d697-4edc-a316-9ff175ad423e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).