---
type: "Bill"
title: "Mississippi Main Street Grant Program; amend administration of and qualifications for."
description: "Mississippi Main Street Grant Program; amend administration of and qualifications for."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 2696"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2696 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Tourism", "Ways and Means"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McCaughn"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 21
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-02-19T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-05-08T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/079a4cd2-d863-47cd-9c0f-1fbebc567bde"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2024/pdf/House_authors/Butler.xml"
source_hash: "4d511536ecce43e30abdad99bf2f882ca1b9727b8e11fe526264618c0cf059df"
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 2696 (2024) — Mississippi Main Street Grant Program; amend administration of and qualifications for.

## 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/SB2696IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 (Cmte Sub) (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/pdf/sam/SB2696_S_(Cmte_Sub)_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 2696** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB2696.pdf)
4. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/2600-2699/SB2696PS.htm)
5. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/pdf/ham/SB2696_H_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
6. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/2600-2699/SB2696CS.htm)
7. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/2600-2699/SB2696SG.htm)

## Votes

- Adopt Conference Report — **117–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **50–2** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **50–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **120–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- McCaughn — primary (person)
- Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Jordan — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Tourism `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-28T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-14T05:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2024-03-14T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2024-03-14T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2024-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2024-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2024-04-03T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2024-04-03T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2024-04-04T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2024-04-16T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2024-04-17T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Chassaniol,Williams,McCaughn
- **2024-04-18T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Lamar,Steverson,Barnett
- **2024-04-25T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2024-04-25T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2024-04-26T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2024-04-29T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2024-05-01T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-05-01T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-05-08T05:00:00+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/079a4cd2-d863-47cd-9c0f-1fbebc567bde`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).