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type: "Bill"
title: "Secretary of State's official seal; include the phrase \"In God We Trust\" at the bottom."
description: "Secretary of State's official seal; include the phrase \"In God We Trust\" at the bottom."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 2131"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2131 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Accountability", "Efficiency", "Transparency"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["England"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-23T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2020-06-25T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/36128179-f797-43f2-8a99-e403ef6fb323"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2020/pdf/House_authors/Barnett.xml"
source_hash: "392b465cabc4e12e4355cc0d1aff25fecf72eca3c8d3eb6e4ac1a88b470f39f2"
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 2131 (2020) — Secretary of State's official seal; include the phrase "In God We Trust" at the bottom.
## 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/2020/html/SB/2100-2199/SB2131IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 (Adopted)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/pdf/sam/SB2131_S_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/SB/2100-2199/SB2131PS.htm)
4. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/SB/2100-2199/SB2131SG.htm)
## Votes
- Passage — **1171** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **520** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- England — primary (person)
- Barnett — cosponsor (person)
- Blackmon — cosponsor (person)
- Blackwell — cosponsor (person)
- Blount — cosponsor (person)
- Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Branning — cosponsor (person)
- Bryan — cosponsor (person)
- Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Caughman — cosponsor (person)
- Chassaniol — cosponsor (person)
- Chism — cosponsor (person)
- DeBar — cosponsor (person)
- DeLano — cosponsor (person)
- Doty — cosponsor (person)
- Fillingane — cosponsor (person)
- Frazier — cosponsor (person)
- Harkins — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Hopson — cosponsor (person)
- Horhn — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson (11th) — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson (15th) — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson (32nd) — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Kirby — cosponsor (person)
- McCaughn — cosponsor (person)
- McDaniel — cosponsor (person)
- McLendon — cosponsor (person)
- McMahan — cosponsor (person)
- Michel — cosponsor (person)
- Moran — cosponsor (person)
- Norwood — cosponsor (person)
- Parker — cosponsor (person)
- Parks — cosponsor (person)
- Polk — cosponsor (person)
- Seymour — cosponsor (person)
- Simmons (12th) — cosponsor (person)
- Simmons (13th) — cosponsor (person)
- Sojourner — cosponsor (person)
- Sparks — cosponsor (person)
- Suber — cosponsor (person)
- Tate — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas — cosponsor (person)
- Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Turner-Ford — cosponsor (person)
- Whaley — cosponsor (person)
- Wiggins — cosponsor (person)
- Witherspoon — cosponsor (person)
- Younger — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-01-23T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-25T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-10T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2020-03-10T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2020-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2020-03-25T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-04T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-06-16T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2020-06-17T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2020-06-19T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2020-06-19T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2020-06-25T05:00:00+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/36128179-f797-43f2-8a99-e403ef6fb323`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).