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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Veterans Service Officers; revise certain qualifications and requirements."
+description: "Veterans Service Officers; revise certain qualifications and requirements."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
+legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "SB 2165"
+citation: "Mississippi SB 2165 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Accountability", "Efficiency", "Transparency", "Military Affairs", "Veterans and Military Affairs"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Seymour"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 12
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2021-01-08T06:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2021-03-17T05:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4c4b32a9-21b8-44e7-ad9f-e6822ff46b0b"
+source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2021/pdf/House_authors/England.xml"
+source_hash: "c0a64d1ecb56cea2aa9dc8bad217a5683d172e3fa0b9744b7c72d4fa57306688"
+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 2165 (2021) — Veterans Service Officers; revise certain qualifications and requirements.
+
+## 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/2021/html/SB/2100-2199/SB2165IN.htm)
+2. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/SB/2100-2199/SB2165PS.htm)
+3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/SB/2100-2199/SB2165SG.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **121–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **52–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Seymour — primary (person)
+- England — cosponsor (person)
+- Jackson (11th) — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-01-08T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Veterans and Military Affairs;Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency `referral-committee`
+- **2021-01-26T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: VM To AC
+- **2021-02-02T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2021-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
+- **2021-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
+- **2021-02-23T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Military Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-02T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2021-03-09T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
+- **2021-03-10T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
+- **2021-03-12T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
+- **2021-03-12T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
+- **2021-03-17T05:00:00+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/4c4b32a9-21b8-44e7-ad9f-e6822ff46b0b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).
+