---
type: "Bill"
title: "Court reporters; increase authorized salary for."
description: "Court reporters; increase authorized salary for."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 2899"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2899 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations A", "Judiciary A", "Judiciary", "Division A"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wiggins"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 17
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-20T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-18T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/aff830b1-24bc-4f98-8cf4-d924e9f10356"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2025/pdf/House_authors/Simmons_(13th).xml"
source_hash: "842ed5d967f6770946ab6d94a1628beb1e56694c61592515c6cbae8c467767de"
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 2899 (2025) — Court reporters; increase authorized salary for.

## 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/2800-2899/SB2899IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 (Cmte Sub) (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/sam/SB2899_S_(Cmte_Sub)_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **Amendment No 1 to Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/ham/SB2899_H_Amend_01_to_Amend_01.pdf)
4. **Amendment No 2 to Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/ham/SB2899_H_Amend_02_to_Amend_01.pdf)
5. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 2899** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB2899.pdf)
6. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/SB/2800-2899/SB2899PS.htm)
7. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/ham/SB2899_H_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
8. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/SB/2800-2899/SB2899CS.htm)
9. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/SB/2800-2899/SB2899SG.htm)

## Votes

- Concurrence in Amendment From House — **50–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **115–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **51–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Wiggins — primary (person)
- Simmons (13th) — cosponsor (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`
- **2025-02-06T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2025-02-06T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-06T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2025-02-07T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2025-02-14T06:00:00+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** Concurred in Amend From House
- **2025-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-03-18T05:00:00+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/aff830b1-24bc-4f98-8cf4-d924e9f10356`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).