---
type: "Bill"
title: "Landowners Protection Act; create."
description: "Landowners Protection Act; create."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 2901"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2901 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Judiciary A", "Business and Financial Institutions"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Harkins"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 23
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-01-21T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-03-29T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c7632055-cf2f-46b1-bef9-7762987651fb"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2019/pdf/House_authors/Blackwell.xml"
source_hash: "66dc86a625a033a9ce17602f89a2da37f31a2b86520c600f80c99925f0230250"
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 2901 (2019) — Landowners Protection Act; 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/2900-2999/SB2901IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 to Amendment No 2 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/pdf/ham/SB2901_H_Amend_01_to_Amend_02.pdf)
3. **Amendment No 2 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/pdf/ham/SB2901_H_Amend_02.pdf)
4. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 2901** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB2901.pdf)
5. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/SB/2900-2999/SB2901PS.htm)
6. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/SB/2900-2999/SB2901CS.htm)
7. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/SB/2900-2999/SB2901SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **32–17** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **78–36** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **76–38** (pass) · lower
- Table Motion to Reconsider — **30–18** (pass) · upper
- Concurrence in Amendment From House — **31–20** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Harkins — primary (person)
- Blackwell — cosponsor (person)
- Branning — cosponsor (person)
- Browning — cosponsor (person)
- Carmichael — cosponsor (person)
- Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Caughman — cosponsor (person)
- Clarke — cosponsor (person)
- Doty — cosponsor (person)
- Gollott — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Hudson — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson_(15th) — cosponsor (person)
- Kirby — cosponsor (person)
- Massey — cosponsor (person)
- Michel — cosponsor (person)
- Moran — cosponsor (person)
- Parker — cosponsor (person)
- Parks — cosponsor (person)
- Seymour — cosponsor (person)
- Watson — cosponsor (person)
- Whaley — cosponsor (person)
- Wilemon — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-21T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Business and Financial Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-01T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-07T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2019-02-07T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2019-02-07T06:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered
- **2019-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Tabled
- **2019-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2019-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary A `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-21T06:00:00+00:00** Read the Third Time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-25T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2019-02-25T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2019-02-25T06:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered (Baker, Tullos)
- **2019-02-28T06:00:00+00:00** Reconsidered
- **2019-02-28T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2019-02-28T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2019-02-28T06:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered (Banks, Baker, Tullos)
- **2019-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Tabled
- **2019-03-05T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2019-03-19T05:00:00+00:00** Concurred in Amend From House
- **2019-03-22T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2019-03-25T05:00:00+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/c7632055-cf2f-46b1-bef9-7762987651fb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).