---
type: "Bill"
title: "Community and junior colleges; may enter into loans for up to 25 years with board of trustees' approval."
description: "Community and junior colleges; may enter into loans for up to 25 years with board of trustees' approval."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 2218"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2218 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Universities and Colleges", "Ways and Means", "Finance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Harkins"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-09T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2018-03-16T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5de7fdfd-13f6-43c9-9c24-cf4ad6e33de5"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2018/pdf//history/SB/SB2218.xml"
source_hash: "9a5303fa5f653d813c2da98af82208d077a0eda1cacdc35915393256f51e4478"
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 2218 (2018) — Community and junior colleges; may enter into loans for up to 25 years with board of trustees' approval.

## 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/2018/html/SB/2200-2299/SB2218IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2018/html/SB/2200-2299/SB2218PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2018/html/SB/2200-2299/SB2218SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage as Amended — **52–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passage — **114–3** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Harkins — primary (person)
- Jackson_(11th) — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-09T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Universities and Colleges;Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-24T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: UC To FI
- **2018-01-30T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-01T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2018-02-01T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2018-02-05T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2018-02-14T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Universities and Colleges;Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-21T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: UC To WM
- **2018-02-27T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: WM To UC
- **2018-02-27T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2018-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Read the Third Time `reading-3`
- **2018-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2018-03-08T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2018-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2018-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2018-03-16T05:00:00+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/5de7fdfd-13f6-43c9-9c24-cf4ad6e33de5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).