---
type: "Bill"
title: "Mississippi Motion Picture Incentive Act; payroll and fringes may be included in base investment for certain motion picture companies."
description: "Mississippi Motion Picture Incentive Act; payroll and fringes may be included in base investment for certain motion picture companies."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 2603"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2603 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Ways and Means", "Finance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Fillingane"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 21
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-01-21T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-04-08T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ff70903b-9ce1-4c6e-940b-e32726ed2ac9"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2019/pdf/House_authors/Jordan.xml"
source_hash: "7a8b94e8b1c7aedd9ac8b416d294ba51350c5fde33e04110c15d553d67965305"
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 2603 (2019) — Mississippi Motion Picture Incentive Act; payroll and fringes may be included in base investment for certain motion picture companies.

## 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/2600-2699/SB2603IN.htm)
2. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 2603** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB2603.pdf)
3. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/SB/2600-2699/SB2603PS.htm)
4. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/pdf/ham/SB2603_H_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
5. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/SB/2600-2699/SB2603CS.htm)
6. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/SB/2600-2699/SB2603SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **43–6** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **101–13** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **101–16** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-21T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-31T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-06T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2019-02-06T06:00:00+00:00** Amendment Failed `amendment-failure`
- **2019-02-06T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2019-02-07T06:00:00+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 As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2019-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2019-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2019-03-21T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2019-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Fillingane,Kirby,Chassaniol
- **2019-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Smith,Lamar,Rogers (61st)
- **2019-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2019-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2019-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2019-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2019-04-03T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2019-04-03T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2019-04-08T05:00:00+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/ff70903b-9ce1-4c6e-940b-e32726ed2ac9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).