---
type: "Bill"
title: "Skilled Nursing Home and Hospital Nurses Retention Loan Repayment Program; establish."
description: "Skilled Nursing Home and Hospital Nurses Retention Loan Repayment Program; establish."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 2373"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2373 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations", "Public Health and Human Services", "Universities and Colleges"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Parks"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-01-16T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2023-03-08T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f582db59-3e70-40e3-b18f-c7cb92108dd0"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2023/pdf/House_authors/Jackson.xml"
source_hash: "9186d96027fe5870ef6b2696f67b1ea0115d9d7ac5a1be04d9055139da0e5743"
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 2373 (2023) — Skilled Nursing Home and Hospital Nurses Retention Loan Repayment Program; establish.

## 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/SB2373IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 (Cmte Sub) (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/pdf/sam/SB2373_S_(Cmte_Sub)_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/SB/2300-2399/SB2373PS.htm)
4. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/SB/2300-2399/SB2373CS.htm)
5. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/SB/2300-2399/SB2373SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **110–5** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **49–3** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Parks — primary (person)
- Jackson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Universities and Colleges;Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-26T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPCS: UC To AP
- **2023-01-31T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-07T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2023-02-07T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2023-02-07T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2023-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2023-02-14T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Public Health and Human Services;Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-21T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: PH To AP
- **2023-02-28T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: AP To PH
- **2023-02-28T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-28T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2023-03-01T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2023-03-03T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2023-03-03T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2023-03-08T06:00:00+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/f582db59-3e70-40e3-b18f-c7cb92108dd0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).