---
type: "Bill"
title: "Alcoholic Beverage Control Law; any municipality or may establish leisure and recreation districts if alcohol is legal."
description: "Alcoholic Beverage Control Law; any municipality or may establish leisure and recreation districts if alcohol is legal."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 2588"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2588 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Ways and Means", "Tourism"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Massey"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-15T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2018-03-07T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eb15e93c-0789-47c1-92dc-428e98014a08"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2018/pdf//history/SB/SB2588.xml"
source_hash: "cb7c0d7a1367638be387469448bc69547602cfb96d2fd7a93a16d17322cb9b57"
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 2588 (2018) — Alcoholic Beverage Control Law; any municipality or may establish leisure and recreation districts if alcohol is legal.

## 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/2500-2599/SB2588IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2018/html/SB/2500-2599/SB2588PS.htm)
3. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2018/html/SB/2500-2599/SB2588CS.htm)
4. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2018/html/SB/2500-2599/SB2588SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **42–9** (pass) · legislature
- Passage — **88–29** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Massey — primary (person)
- Jordan — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-15T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Tourism `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-25T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-05T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2018-02-05T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2018-02-06T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2018-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-27T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-28T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2018-03-01T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2018-03-02T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2018-03-02T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2018-03-07T06:00:00+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/eb15e93c-0789-47c1-92dc-428e98014a08`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).