---
type: "Bill"
title: "Small estates; clarify muniment of title and affidavit of succession."
description: "Small estates; clarify muniment of title and affidavit of succession."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 2850"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2850 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Judiciary A", "Judiciary", "Division A"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Doty"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-17T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2020-06-23T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2264a2dc-ff99-4c73-b428-9fd0b14d3ba8"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2020/pdf/House_authors/Jackson_(11th).xml"
source_hash: "3fde407659cfc092758b875ed42adb9edc1fd3b3934d324ed7e7a4530388a19e"
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 2850 (2020) — Small estates; clarify muniment of title and affidavit of succession.

## 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/2800-2899/SB2850IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/SB/2800-2899/SB2850PS.htm)
3. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/SB/2800-2899/SB2850CS.htm)
4. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/SB/2800-2899/SB2850SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **117–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **52–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Doty — primary (person)
- Jackson (11th) — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary, Division A `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-27T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2020-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2020-03-25T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary A `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-03T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-06-11T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2020-06-12T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2020-06-17T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2020-06-17T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2020-06-23T05:00:00+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/2264a2dc-ff99-4c73-b428-9fd0b14d3ba8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).