---
type: "Bill"
title: "Funds collected for certified copies; allow use for public health programs and completion of other recordkeeping and statistics."
description: "Funds collected for certified copies; allow use for public health programs and completion of other recordkeeping and statistics."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 2743"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2743 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations", "Appropriations A", "Public Health and Human Services", "Public Health and Welfare"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryan"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-20T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-21T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/aa08cf90-2cea-4596-859f-07578af6fc20"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2025/pdf/House_authors/Simmons_(13th).xml"
source_hash: "c4bccc1311d46546bf86c4a777acb55d93573a21a9135f36874cddf2fb4c08ed"
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 2743 (2025) — Funds collected for certified copies; allow use for public health programs and completion of other recordkeeping and statistics.

## 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/2025/html/SB/2700-2799/SB2743IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/SB/2700-2799/SB2743PS.htm)
3. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/SB/2700-2799/SB2743CS.htm)
4. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/SB/2700-2799/SB2743SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **120–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **51–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bryan — primary (person)
- Simmons (13th) — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-20T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Public Health and Welfare;Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-29T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPCS: PH To AP
- **2025-02-04T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2025-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-14T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2025-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Public Health and Human Services;Appropriations A `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-25T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: PH To AP
- **2025-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: AP To PH
- **2025-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Read the Third Time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2025-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-03-21T05:00:00+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/aa08cf90-2cea-4596-859f-07578af6fc20`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).