republic-os/legislation/us/states/ms/2019/sb-2781.md

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Bill	Mississippi Fresh Start Act; create to require the revision of licensing restrictions based on criminal records.	Mississippi Fresh Start Act; create to require the revision of licensing restrictions based on criminal records.	us/states/ms	Mississippi Legislature	2019	SB 2781	Mississippi SB 2781 (2019)	bill	Judiciary A Accountability Efficiency Transparency	enacted	Polk	9	31	6	2019-01-21T06:00:00+00:00	2019-04-16T05:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/5c16596a-5e34-456b-9f76-41572983534d	http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2019/pdf/House_authors/Barnett.xml	b06bf9e75d5cd1a3237858a4550e67dc8dd9b64abac4256116386beba161a728	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ms

Mississippi SB 2781 (2019) — Mississippi Fresh Start Act; create to require the revision of licensing restrictions based on criminal records.

Version chain

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

1. As Introduced (filed) — source
2. Amendment No 1 to Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote) (committee substitute) — source
3. Amendment No 2 to Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote) (committee substitute) — source
4. Amendment No 3 to Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote) (committee substitute) — source
5. Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 2781 (committee substitute) — source
6. As Passed the upper (committee substitute) — source
7. Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote) (committee substitute) — source
8. Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
9. Current version (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Adopt Conference Report — 111–3 (pass) · lower
• Passage — 41–10 (pass) · upper
• Passage as Amended — 114–2 (pass) · lower
• Adopt Conference Report — 44–7 (pass) · upper
• Adopt Conference Report — 19–30 (fail) · upper
• Adopt Conference Report — 109–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Polk — primary (person)
• Barnett — cosponsor (person)
• Blount — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-21T06:00:00+00:00 Referred To Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency referral-committee
• 2019-01-31T06:00:00+00:00 Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub committee-passage
• 2019-02-12T06:00:00+00:00 Committee Substitute Adopted substitution
• 2019-02-12T06:00:00+00:00 Amendment Failed amendment-failure
• 2019-02-12T06:00:00+00:00 Passed passage
• 2019-02-13T06:00:00+00:00 Transmitted To House introduction
• 2019-02-21T06:00:00+00:00 Referred To Judiciary A referral-committee
• 2019-02-27T06:00:00+00:00 Title Suff Do Pass As Amended committee-passage
• 2019-03-12T05:00:00+00:00 Read the Third Time reading-3
• 2019-03-13T05:00:00+00:00 Amended amendment-passage
• 2019-03-13T05:00:00+00:00 Passed As Amended passage
• 2019-03-14T05:00:00+00:00 Returned For Concurrence
• 2019-03-22T05:00:00+00:00 Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
• 2019-03-22T05:00:00+00:00 Conferees Named Polk,Blackwell,Turner-Ford
• 2019-03-25T05:00:00+00:00 Conferees Named Baker,Reynolds,Lamar
• 2019-03-26T05:00:00+00:00 Conference Report Filed
• 2019-03-26T05:00:00+00:00 Conference Report Filed
• 2019-03-28T05:00:00+00:00 Conference Report Adopted
• 2019-03-28T05:00:00+00:00 Conference Report Failed
• 2019-03-28T05:00:00+00:00 Motion to Reconsider Entered
• 2019-03-28T05:00:00+00:00 Recommitted For Further Conf
• 2019-03-28T05:00:00+00:00 Conference Report Filed
• 2019-03-28T05:00:00+00:00 Motion to Reconsider Entered (Baker, Tullos)
• 2019-03-28T05:00:00+00:00 Reconsidered
• 2019-03-28T05:00:00+00:00 Recommitted For Further Conf
• 2019-03-28T05:00:00+00:00 Conference Report Filed
• 2019-03-29T05:00:00+00:00 Conference Report Adopted
• 2019-03-29T05:00:00+00:00 Conference Report Adopted
• 2019-04-03T05:00:00+00:00 Enrolled Bill Signed
• 2019-04-03T05:00:00+00:00 Enrolled Bill Signed
• 2019-04-16T05:00:00+00:00 Approved by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5c16596a-5e34-456b-9f76-41572983534d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).