---
type: "Bill"
title: "Veterans Service Officers; revise certain qualifications and requirements."
description: "Veterans Service Officers; revise certain qualifications and requirements."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 2165"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2165 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Accountability", "Efficiency", "Transparency", "Military Affairs", "Veterans and Military Affairs"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Seymour"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-08T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-17T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4c4b32a9-21b8-44e7-ad9f-e6822ff46b0b"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2021/pdf/House_authors/England.xml"
source_hash: "c0a64d1ecb56cea2aa9dc8bad217a5683d172e3fa0b9744b7c72d4fa57306688"
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 2165 (2021) — Veterans Service Officers; revise certain qualifications and requirements.

## 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/2021/html/SB/2100-2199/SB2165IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/SB/2100-2199/SB2165PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/SB/2100-2199/SB2165SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **121–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **52–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Seymour — primary (person)
- England — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson (11th) — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-08T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Veterans and Military Affairs;Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-26T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: VM To AC
- **2021-02-02T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2021-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2021-02-23T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Military Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-02T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-09T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2021-03-10T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2021-03-12T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2021-03-12T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2021-03-17T05:00:00+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/4c4b32a9-21b8-44e7-ad9f-e6822ff46b0b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).