---
type: "Bill"
title: "Boating; prohibit enforcement officers from performing vessel stops or boarding a vessel without probable cause."
description: "Boating; prohibit enforcement officers from performing vessel stops or boarding a vessel without probable cause."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 2263"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2263 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Accountability", "Efficiency", "Transparency", "Marine Resources", "Ports and Marine Resources"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["England"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2026-01-14T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2026-04-13T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/872abc4b-e896-41e7-9197-660a0719cce2"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2026/pdf/House_authors/Seymour.xml"
source_hash: "dc26202fda801f3bc8aca6469e692dcf2489858f367dc611acf45542d1103c95"
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 2263 (2026) — Boating; prohibit enforcement officers from performing vessel stops or boarding a vessel without probable cause.

## 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/2200-2299/SB2263IN.htm)
2. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 2263** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2026/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB2263.pdf)
3. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2026/html/SB/2200-2299/SB2263PS.htm)
4. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2026/pdf/ham/SB2263_H_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
5. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2026/html/SB/2200-2299/SB2263SG.htm)

## Votes

- Adopt Conference Report — **52–0** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **120–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **51–1** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **119–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- England — primary (person)
- Seymour — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-14T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Ports and Marine Resources `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-30T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-09T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2026-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2026-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Rereferred To Marine Resources;Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-25T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPAA: MR To AC
- **2026-03-03T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPAA: AC To MR
- **2026-03-03T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2026-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2026-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2026-03-05T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2026-03-10T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2026-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named DeLano,Thompson,England
- **2026-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Anderson (122nd),Grady,Fondren
- **2026-03-25T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2026-03-25T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2026-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2026-03-30T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2026-04-06T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2026-04-06T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2026-04-13T05:00:00+00:00** Law W/out Governor's Signature `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/872abc4b-e896-41e7-9197-660a0719cce2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).