---
type: "Bill"
title: "Rural Water Oversight Committee; create and prescribe duties of."
description: "Rural Water Oversight Committee; create and prescribe duties of."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 2526"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2526 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Accountability", "Efficiency", "Transparency", "Energy", "Public Utilities"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Williams"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 17
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2026-01-19T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2026-03-19T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1bf2f432-7cad-48e5-abeb-7cb5c734c479"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2026/pdf/Senate_authors/Williams.xml"
source_hash: "be333e61fa6187004acab90636cff8cce4ce73586b3034fec838dfa8378be9a7"
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 2526 (2026) — Rural Water Oversight Committee; create and prescribe duties of.

## 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/2500-2599/SB2526IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 (Cmte Sub) (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2026/pdf/sam/SB2526_S_(Cmte_Sub)_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **Amendment No 1 to Amendment No 1 (Cmte Sub) (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2026/pdf/sam/SB2526_S_(Cmte_Sub)_Amend_01_to_Amend_01.pdf)
4. **Amendment No 2 (Cmte Sub) (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2026/pdf/sam/SB2526_S_(Cmte_Sub)_Amend_02.pdf)
5. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 2526** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2026/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB2526.pdf)
6. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2026/html/SB/2500-2599/SB2526PS.htm)
7. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2026/pdf/ham/SB2526_H_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
8. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2026/html/SB/2500-2599/SB2526CS.htm)
9. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2026/html/SB/2500-2599/SB2526SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage as Amended — **109–4** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- Concurrence in Amendment From House — **51–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Williams — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-19T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Energy `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-02T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2026-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2026-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2026-02-16T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2026-02-16T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Public Utilities;Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-26T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPAA: PU To AC
- **2026-03-03T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPAA: AC To PU
- **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** Concurred in Amend From House
- **2026-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2026-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2026-03-19T05:00:00+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/1bf2f432-7cad-48e5-abeb-7cb5c734c479`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).