---
type: "Bill"
title: "MS Real Estate Commission; require to establish program using administrative hearing officers."
description: "MS Real Estate Commission; require to establish program using administrative hearing officers."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 2097"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2097 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Accountability", "Efficiency", "Transparency", "Business and Financial Institutions"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sparks"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-01-12T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-02-02T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/121268a6-3e9b-472e-8bcf-56cfb1c1aa03"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2022/pdf/House_authors/Barnett.xml"
source_hash: "b117dce87692d8ac583b5b3a69b225506cf205a1369108525bd33410ed60d343"
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 2097 (2022) — MS Real Estate Commission; require to establish program using administrative hearing officers.

## 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/2022/html/SB/2001-2099/SB2097IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/SB/2001-2099/SB2097PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/SB/2001-2099/SB2097SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **49–1** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **116–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Sparks — primary (person)
- Barnett — cosponsor (person)
- Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Branning — cosponsor (person)
- Caughman — cosponsor (person)
- Chism — cosponsor (person)
- DeLano — cosponsor (person)
- England — cosponsor (person)
- Hickman — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson (11th) — cosponsor (person)
- McCaughn — cosponsor (person)
- McLendon — cosponsor (person)
- McMahan — cosponsor (person)
- Moran — cosponsor (person)
- Polk — cosponsor (person)
- Seymour — cosponsor (person)
- Suber — cosponsor (person)
- Tate — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas — cosponsor (person)
- Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Whaley — cosponsor (person)
- Williams — cosponsor (person)
- Younger — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-12T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Business and Financial Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-12T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-13T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2022-01-13T06:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered
- **2022-01-18T06:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Tabled
- **2022-01-18T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2022-01-20T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-20T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-25T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2022-01-26T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2022-01-27T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2022-01-27T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2022-02-02T06:00:00+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/121268a6-3e9b-472e-8bcf-56cfb1c1aa03`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).