---
type: "Bill"
title: "Mississippi Board of Mental Health; authorize to sell certain state-owned real property located in Meridian, Lauderdale County."
description: "Mississippi Board of Mental Health; authorize to sell certain state-owned real property located in Meridian, Lauderdale County."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 2277"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2277 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Property", "Finance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jackson"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 23
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2020-02-07T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2020-07-08T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b285a995-0919-4253-9319-d3f21b746acb"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2020/pdf/House_authors/Tate.xml"
source_hash: "774ff5a8b6dc4f2e809f9d48b05473b069ea213bcdfa165f0fa910d48c4805e6"
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 2277 (2020) — Mississippi Board of Mental Health; authorize to sell certain state-owned real property located in Meridian, Lauderdale County.

## 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/2020/html/SB/2200-2299/SB2277IN.htm)
2. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 2277** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB2277.pdf)
3. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/SB/2200-2299/SB2277PS.htm)
4. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/pdf/ham/SB2277_H_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
5. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/SB/2200-2299/SB2277SG.htm)

## Votes

- Concurrence in Amendment From House — **52–0** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **52–0** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **107–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **116–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **51–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jackson — primary (person)
- Tate — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-07T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Public Property;Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-25T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: PP To FI
- **2020-02-27T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-05T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2020-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Public Property `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-28T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2020-06-02T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2020-06-02T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2020-06-03T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2020-06-17T05:00:00+00:00** Concurred in Amend From House
- **2020-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered
- **2020-06-19T05:00:00+00:00** Reconsidered
- **2020-06-19T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2020-06-22T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Turner-Ford,Tate,Blount
- **2020-06-22T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Weathersby,Holloway,Newman
- **2020-06-26T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2020-06-26T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2020-06-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2020-06-29T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2020-07-02T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2020-07-02T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2020-07-08T05:00:00+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/b285a995-0919-4253-9319-d3f21b746acb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).