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type: "Bill"
title: "Mississippi Fresh Start Act; create to require the revision of licensing restrictions based on criminal records."
description: "Mississippi Fresh Start Act; create to require the revision of licensing restrictions based on criminal records."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 2781"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2781 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Judiciary A", "Accountability", "Efficiency", "Transparency"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Polk"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 31
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-01-21T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-04-16T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5c16596a-5e34-456b-9f76-41572983534d"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2019/pdf/House_authors/Barnett.xml"
source_hash: "b06bf9e75d5cd1a3237858a4550e67dc8dd9b64abac4256116386beba161a728"
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 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](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/SB/2700-2799/SB2781IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 to Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/pdf/ham/SB2781_H_Amend_01_to_Amend_01.htm)
3. **Amendment No 2 to Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/pdf/ham/SB2781_H_Amend_02_to_Amend_01.htm)
4. **Amendment No 3 to Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/pdf/ham/SB2781_H_Amend_03_to_Amend_01.htm)
5. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 2781** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB2781.pdf)
6. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/SB/2700-2799/SB2781PS.htm)
7. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/pdf/ham/SB2781_H_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
8. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/SB/2700-2799/SB2781CS.htm)
9. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/SB/2700-2799/SB2781SG.htm)
## Votes
- Adopt Conference Report — **1113** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **4110** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **1142** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **447** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **1930** (fail) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **1091** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5c16596a-5e34-456b-9f76-41572983534d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).