republic-os/legislation/us/states/ms/2019/sb-2237.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Public office; persons convicted of certain crimes are ineligible to qualify as a candidate for or be appointed to.	Public office; persons convicted of certain crimes are ineligible to qualify as a candidate for or be appointed to.	us/states/ms	Mississippi Legislature	2019	SB 2237	Mississippi SB 2237 (2019)	bill	Apportionment and Elections Elections	enacted	Blackwell	3	11	2	2019-01-15T06:00:00+00:00	2019-03-21T05:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/b917236c-92e8-4add-b3f6-6b10ba9d4927	http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2019/pdf/House_authors/Hill.xml	54210653714c5b7a7f2bea4ba04e76bc05b4daac5611703eeb1f388a921e0728	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ms

Mississippi SB 2237 (2019) — Public office; persons convicted of certain crimes are ineligible to qualify as a candidate for or be appointed to.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. As Introduced (filed) — source
2. As Passed the upper (committee substitute) — source
3. Current version (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passage — 51–0 (pass) · upper
• Passage — 103–6 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Blackwell — primary (person)
• Hill — cosponsor (person)
• Jackson_(11th) — cosponsor (person)
• Jackson_(32nd) — cosponsor (person)
• Jordan — cosponsor (person)
• McDaniel — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-15T06:00:00+00:00 Referred To Elections referral-committee
• 2019-01-31T06:00:00+00:00 Title Suff Do Pass committee-passage
• 2019-02-12T06:00:00+00:00 Passed passage
• 2019-02-13T06:00:00+00:00 Transmitted To House introduction
• 2019-02-19T06:00:00+00:00 Referred To Apportionment and Elections referral-committee
• 2019-03-04T06:00:00+00:00 Title Suff Do Pass committee-passage
• 2019-03-12T05:00:00+00:00 Passed passage
• 2019-03-13T05:00:00+00:00 Returned For Enrolling
• 2019-03-19T05:00:00+00:00 Enrolled Bill Signed
• 2019-03-19T05:00:00+00:00 Enrolled Bill Signed
• 2019-03-21T05:00:00+00:00 Approved by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b917236c-92e8-4add-b3f6-6b10ba9d4927. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).