---
type: "Bill"
title: "The Mississippi National Guard Tricare Premium Reimbursement Program; create."
description: "The Mississippi National Guard Tricare Premium Reimbursement Program; create."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 2018"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2018 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations A", "Military Affairs", "Veterans and Military Affairs"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tate"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-01-08T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2026-03-13T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/12a3e539-6fde-4fcd-84ca-8e6322174086"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2026/pdf/House_authors/Barnett.xml"
source_hash: "0a2680c647505c4ad6de3caa3ace36ba04abb04f1a71d68c18a09f38b1c13ca0"
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 2018 (2026) — The Mississippi National Guard Tricare Premium Reimbursement Program; create.

## 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/2026/html/SB/2001-2099/SB2018IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2026/html/SB/2001-2099/SB2018PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2026/html/SB/2001-2099/SB2018SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **121–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **50–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Tate — primary (person)
- Barnett — cosponsor (person)
- Barrett — cosponsor (person)
- Berry — cosponsor (person)
- Blackmon — cosponsor (person)
- Blackwell — cosponsor (person)
- Blount — cosponsor (person)
- Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Brumfield — cosponsor (person)
- Bryan — cosponsor (person)
- Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Chassaniol — cosponsor (person)
- Chism — cosponsor (person)
- DeLano — cosponsor (person)
- DuPree — cosponsor (person)
- England — cosponsor (person)
- Fillingane — cosponsor (person)
- Frazier — cosponsor (person)
- Gillespie Isom — cosponsor (person)
- Harkins — cosponsor (person)
- Hartness — cosponsor (person)
- Hickman — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Hopson — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Kirby — cosponsor (person)
- Ladner — cosponsor (person)
- McCaughn — cosponsor (person)
- McLendon — cosponsor (person)
- McMahan — cosponsor (person)
- Michel — cosponsor (person)
- Mumford — cosponsor (person)
- Norwood — cosponsor (person)
- Parks — cosponsor (person)
- Pope — cosponsor (person)
- Rhodes — cosponsor (person)
- Seymour — cosponsor (person)
- Simmons (12th) — cosponsor (person)
- Simmons (13th) — cosponsor (person)
- Sparks — cosponsor (person)
- Suber — cosponsor (person)
- Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas — cosponsor (person)
- Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Turner-Ford — cosponsor (person)
- Whaley — cosponsor (person)
- Wiggins — cosponsor (person)
- Williams — cosponsor (person)
- Younger — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-08T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Veterans and Military Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-08T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2026-01-12T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2026-01-13T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2026-02-06T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Military Affairs;Appropriations A `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-25T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: MA To AP
- **2026-03-03T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: AP To MA
- **2026-03-03T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2026-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2026-03-05T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2026-03-09T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2026-03-09T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2026-03-13T05:00:00+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/12a3e539-6fde-4fcd-84ca-8e6322174086`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).