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type: "Bill"
title: "Runoff elections; amend to lengthen the timing requirement."
description: "Runoff elections; amend to lengthen the timing requirement."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 2144"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2144 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Apportionment and Elections", "Elections"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["England"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 29
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-01-31T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-05-13T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b8135821-05e0-4ce0-9dc1-9fbc1f59b98e"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2024/pdf/Senate_authors/England.xml"
source_hash: "ba0fc539c3abc7988746ac8631145bf09cda091f403a08c3ded02e130c6aad3c"
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 2144 (2024) — Runoff elections; amend to lengthen the timing requirement.
## 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/2024/html/SB/2100-2199/SB2144IN.htm)
2. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 2144** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB2144.pdf)
3. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/2100-2199/SB2144PS.htm)
4. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/pdf/ham/SB2144_H_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
5. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/2100-2199/SB2144CS.htm)
6. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/2100-2199/SB2144SG.htm)
## Votes
- Adopt Conference Report — **501** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **1181** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **490** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **1083** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **646** (fail) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **1093** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- England — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-01-31T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Elections `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-27T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2024-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-08T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2024-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Apportionment and Elections `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2024-04-04T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2024-04-04T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2024-04-05T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2024-04-10T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2024-04-12T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named England,Fillingane,Tate
- **2024-04-16T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Sanford,Tullos,Wallace
- **2024-04-24T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2024-04-24T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2024-04-25T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2024-04-29T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Failed
- **2024-04-29T05:00:00+00:00** Reconsidered
- **2024-04-29T05:00:00+00:00** Recommitted For Further Conf
- **2024-04-29T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered
- **2024-04-30T05:00:00+00:00** Reconsidered
- **2024-04-30T05:00:00+00:00** Recommitted For Further Conf
- **2024-05-01T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2024-05-01T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2024-05-02T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2024-05-02T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2024-05-06T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-05-06T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-05-13T05:00:00+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/b8135821-05e0-4ce0-9dc1-9fbc1f59b98e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).