republic-os/legislation/us/states/ms/2023/sb-2199.md

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Bill	County prosecuting attorney; clarify authorization to defend persons in criminal prosecutions in any other county.	County prosecuting attorney; clarify authorization to defend persons in criminal prosecutions in any other county.	us/states/ms	Mississippi Legislature	2023	SB 2199	Mississippi SB 2199 (2023)	bill	Judiciary B Judiciary Division A	enacted	Hickman	4	12	2	2023-01-13T06:00:00+00:00	2023-03-03T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/46c12250-fad7-4773-8db9-b26a393f3975	http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2023/pdf/House_authors/Simmons_(12th).xml	65cfd53bd54745aab0e5e8a6203835165df55642ae70c12f2a28666c34dc52d2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ms

Mississippi SB 2199 (2023) — County prosecuting attorney; clarify authorization to defend persons in criminal prosecutions in any other county.

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. Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
4. Current version (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passage — 50–0 (pass) · upper
• Passage — 118–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Hickman — primary (person)
• Simmons (12th) — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-01-13T06:00:00+00:00 Referred To Judiciary, Division A referral-committee
• 2023-01-31T06:00:00+00:00 Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub committee-passage
• 2023-02-01T06:00:00+00:00 Committee Substitute Adopted substitution
• 2023-02-01T06:00:00+00:00 Passed passage
• 2023-02-02T06:00:00+00:00 Transmitted To House introduction
• 2023-02-07T06:00:00+00:00 Referred To Judiciary B referral-committee
• 2023-02-23T06:00:00+00:00 Title Suff Do Pass committee-passage
• 2023-02-23T06:00:00+00:00 Passed passage
• 2023-02-24T06:00:00+00:00 Returned For Enrolling
• 2023-02-27T06:00:00+00:00 Enrolled Bill Signed
• 2023-02-27T06:00:00+00:00 Enrolled Bill Signed
• 2023-03-03T06:00:00+00:00 Approved by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/46c12250-fad7-4773-8db9-b26a393f3975. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).