---
type: "Bill"
title: "Residential Landlord/Tenant Act; revise to give more protections to landlords."
description: "Residential Landlord/Tenant Act; revise to give more protections to landlords."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 2473"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2473 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Judiciary A", "Judiciary", "Division A"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hill"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2018-01-15T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2018-04-12T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4a5682e9-3408-4e84-80b0-93ca68bb5e94"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2018/pdf//history/SB/SB2473.xml"
source_hash: "bd479c04030bc4465ad8069c1f529d82225179902e7ed0c23c62a2f150ac8fdf"
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 2473 (2018) — Residential Landlord/Tenant Act; revise to give more protections to landlords.

## 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/2400-2499/SB2473IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2018/html/SB/2400-2499/SB2473PS.htm)
3. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2018/html/SB/2400-2499/SB2473CS.htm)
4. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2018/html/SB/2400-2499/SB2473SG.htm)

## Votes

- Adopt Conference Report — **52–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passage as Amended — **50–2** (pass) · legislature
- Passage as Amended — **103–7** (pass) · legislature
- Adopt Conference Report — **104–10** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Hill — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-15T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary, Division A `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-30T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-07T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2018-02-07T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2018-02-07T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2018-02-09T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2018-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary A `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-27T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2018-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Read the Third Time `reading-3`
- **2018-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2018-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2018-03-08T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2018-03-14T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2018-03-24T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Hopson,Branning,Harkins
- **2018-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Baker,Powell,Touchstone
- **2018-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2018-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2018-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2018-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2018-03-29T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2018-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2018-04-12T05:00:00+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/4a5682e9-3408-4e84-80b0-93ca68bb5e94`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).