---
type: "Bill"
title: "Appropriation; Personnel Board."
description: "Appropriation; Personnel Board."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 3097"
citation: "Mississippi SB 3097 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations", "Appropriations A", "Appropriations D"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hopson"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2026-03-25T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/38ca2b6f-aa1e-40d8-ba3a-9dea20b9ca28"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2026/pdf/House_authors/DeBar.xml"
source_hash: "367a1a6db8ddd128dba7117d6661d8d7249952096ba1fdea73124b0713123628"
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 3097 (2026) — Appropriation; Personnel Board.

## 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/3000-3099/SB3097IN.htm)
2. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 3097** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2026/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB3097.pdf)
3. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2026/html/SB/3000-3099/SB3097PS.htm)
4. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2026/pdf/ham/SB3097_H_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
5. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2026/html/SB/3000-3099/SB3097CS.htm)
6. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2026/html/SB/3000-3099/SB3097SG.htm)

## Votes

- Concurrence in Amendment From House — **52–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **119–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **51–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hopson — primary (person)
- DeBar — cosponsor (person)
- DeLano — cosponsor (person)
- Seymour — cosponsor (person)
- Simmons (13th) — cosponsor (person)
- Tate — cosponsor (person)
- Williams — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2026-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2026-02-23T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2026-02-24T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Appropriations D;Appropriations A `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPAA: A3 To AP
- **2026-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPAA: AP To A3
- **2026-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2026-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2026-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2026-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Concurred in Amend From House
- **2026-03-20T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2026-03-20T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2026-03-25T05:00:00+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/38ca2b6f-aa1e-40d8-ba3a-9dea20b9ca28`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).