---
type: "Bill"
title: "Mississippi Department of Transportation; design-build requirement revisions."
description: "Mississippi Department of Transportation; design-build requirement revisions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 2645"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2645 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Highways and Transportation", "Transportation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Branning"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-02-19T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-04-19T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/989303ce-9b85-404c-a27a-a6e6a4659a49"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2024/pdf/House_authors/McLendon.xml"
source_hash: "ffe55ce65f85273a0d6c50000645df73256fa1fcf980d85d5dea8340d5f97899"
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 2645 (2024) — Mississippi Department of Transportation; design-build requirement revisions.

## 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/2024/html/SB/2600-2699/SB2645IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/2600-2699/SB2645PS.htm)
3. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/2600-2699/SB2645CS.htm)
4. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/2600-2699/SB2645SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **52–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **52–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **114–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Branning — primary (person)
- McLendon — cosponsor (person)
- Parker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Highways and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-28T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2024-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered
- **2024-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Reconsidered
- **2024-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Failed
- **2024-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-14T05:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2024-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2024-04-04T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-04T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered (Currie, Massengill, Tubb)
- **2024-04-09T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Tabled
- **2024-04-09T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2024-04-11T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-04-11T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-04-19T05:00:00+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/989303ce-9b85-404c-a27a-a6e6a4659a49`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).