---
type: "Bill"
title: "Material harmful to minors; provide for liability for any entity that distributes on the internet without age verification."
description: "Material harmful to minors; provide for liability for any entity that distributes on the internet without age verification."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 2346"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2346 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Judiciary B", "Judiciary", "Division B"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Boyd"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-01-16T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2023-04-18T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5959c993-cd37-4f35-b1b1-21fdda4ceab5"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2023/pdf/House_authors/Branning.xml"
source_hash: "d38fb092f5cb493916de7e1562681e4cbfdd6c5b09e8fddbfda6e2b08c978f2d"
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 2346 (2023) — Material harmful to minors; provide for liability for any entity that distributes on the internet without age verification.

## 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/2023/html/SB/2300-2399/SB2346IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/pdf/ham/SB2346_H_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **Amendment No 1 to Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/pdf/ham/SB2346_H_Amend_01_to_Amend_01.pdf)
4. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 2346** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB2346.pdf)
5. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/SB/2300-2399/SB2346PS.htm)
6. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/SB/2300-2399/SB2346SG.htm)

## Votes

- Adopt Conference Report — **39–10** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **52–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **82–32** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **112–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Boyd — primary (person)
- Branning — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Parker — cosponsor (person)
- Williams — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary, Division B `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-26T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-08T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2023-02-09T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2023-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary B `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-28T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Read the Third Time `reading-3`
- **2023-03-08T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2023-03-08T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2023-03-10T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2023-03-14T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2023-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Fillingane,Wiggins,Hill
- **2023-03-21T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Bain,Ford (73rd),Newman
- **2023-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2023-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2023-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2023-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2023-03-31T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2023-03-31T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2023-04-18T05:00:00+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/5959c993-cd37-4f35-b1b1-21fdda4ceab5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).