---
type: "Bill"
title: "Tax exemptions; revise the requirements that a data center must meet to be eligible for."
description: "Tax exemptions; revise the requirements that a data center must meet to be eligible for."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 2271"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2271 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Ways and Means", "Finance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Fillingane"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-21T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-03-22T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b53ec502-1fa4-4475-8233-295298c7b75d"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2019/pdf/Senate_authors/Fillingane.xml"
source_hash: "bff5403126d3de5f9d11137ea3b31812b0bd8203abcef4eb2a4d45157a4bafe9"
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 2271 (2019) — Tax exemptions; revise the requirements that a data center must meet to be eligible for.

## 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/2200-2299/SB2271IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/SB/2200-2299/SB2271PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/SB/2200-2299/SB2271SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **48–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **113–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Fillingane — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-21T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-21T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-25T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2019-02-26T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2019-02-26T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2019-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2019-03-19T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2019-03-19T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2019-03-22T05:00:00+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/b53ec502-1fa4-4475-8233-295298c7b75d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).