---
type: "Bill"
title: "Appropriation; Military Department."
description: "Appropriation; Military Department."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 3044"
citation: "Mississippi SB 3044 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations", "Appropriations A", "Appropriations C"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hopson"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-03-12T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-05-09T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0c587b7b-459e-4c13-bb79-8bf9951d913d"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2024/pdf/House_authors/Michel.xml"
source_hash: "0328da54da03f14f36a1a8d275f005bc3afbc5dcb0002a0df6fddb57bcaa25bd"
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 3044 (2024) — Appropriation; Military Department.

## 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/3000-3099/SB3044IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/pdf/ham/SB3044_H_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 3044** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB3044.pdf)
4. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/3000-3099/SB3044PS.htm)
5. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/3000-3099/SB3044SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **50–0** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **122–0** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **50–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hopson — primary (person)
- Michel — cosponsor (person)
- Polk — cosponsor (person)
- Seymour — cosponsor (person)
- Tate — cosponsor (person)
- Williams — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-19T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-20T05:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2024-03-20T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Appropriations C;Appropriations A `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-04T05:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPAA: A2 To AP
- **2024-04-04T05:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPAA: AP To A2
- **2024-04-04T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2024-04-10T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2024-04-10T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2024-04-10T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2024-04-11T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2024-04-12T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Hopson,Williams,Tate
- **2024-04-16T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Deweese,Read,Turner
- **2024-04-29T05:00:00+00:00** Suspend from Deadlines by HC 64
- **2024-04-29T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2024-04-29T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2024-05-01T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2024-05-01T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2024-05-03T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-05-03T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-05-09T05:00:00+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/0c587b7b-459e-4c13-bb79-8bf9951d913d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).