---
type: "Bill"
title: "Mississippi Ports Improvements Fund; create."
description: "Mississippi Ports Improvements Fund; create."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 2282"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2282 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Ways and Means", "Finance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gollott"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-21T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-03-28T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/be579a5f-e836-45b8-8637-35154c961f77"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2019/pdf/House_authors/Carter.xml"
source_hash: "defd42b6aada94a779a8f430b224eefeb20c029774d46215e750bfdc4e625312"
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 2282 (2019) — Mississippi Ports Improvements Fund; create.

## 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/SB2282IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/SB/2200-2299/SB2282PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/SB/2200-2299/SB2282SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **108–4** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **51–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gollott — primary (person)
- Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Simmons_(12th) — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-21T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-05T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-07T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2019-02-08T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2019-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-05T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Tabled Subject To Call
- **2019-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2019-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered (Lamar, Smith)
- **2019-03-14T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Tabled
- **2019-03-14T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2019-03-21T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2019-03-21T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2019-03-28T05:00:00+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/be579a5f-e836-45b8-8637-35154c961f77`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).