---
type: "Bill"
title: "Fee-in-lieu of ad valorem taxes; revise investment required by qualified businesses under the MS Health Care Industry Zone Act."
description: "Fee-in-lieu of ad valorem taxes; revise investment required by qualified businesses under the MS Health Care Industry Zone Act."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 2056"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2056 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Ways and Means", "Finance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blackwell"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-01-08T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-03-29T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d083185e-66f3-4906-9d2d-bb0462e2456f"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2019/pdf/House_authors/Dearing.xml"
source_hash: "8c56075d8d463cdcf6de54d7665f4a6306917cdbf8dda10405e0ac703c1f29b4"
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 2056 (2019) — Fee-in-lieu of ad valorem taxes; revise investment required by qualified businesses under the MS Health Care Industry Zone Act.

## 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/2019/html/SB/2001-2099/SB2056IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 (Cmte Sub) (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/pdf/sam/SB2056_S_(Cmte_Sub)_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 2056** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB2056.pdf)
4. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/SB/2001-2099/SB2056PS.htm)
5. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/pdf/ham/SB2056_H_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
6. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/SB/2001-2099/SB2056CS.htm)
7. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/SB/2001-2099/SB2056SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage as Amended — **115–0** (pass) · lower
- Concurrence in Amendment From House — **52–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **51–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Blackwell — primary (person)
- Dearing — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson_(11th) — cosponsor (person)
- Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Parker — cosponsor (person)
- Parks — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-08T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-24T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2019-01-31T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2019-01-31T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2019-01-31T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2019-01-31T06:00:00+00:00** Immediate Release
- **2019-01-31T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2019-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2019-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2019-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2019-03-20T05:00:00+00:00** Concurred in Amend From House
- **2019-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2019-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2019-03-29T05:00:00+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/d083185e-66f3-4906-9d2d-bb0462e2456f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).