---
type: "Bill"
title: "MS Department of Health and MS Department of Revenue; provide certain exemptions for operation required under Medical Cannabis Act."
description: "MS Department of Health and MS Department of Revenue; provide certain exemptions for operation required under Medical Cannabis Act."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 2818"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2818 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations", "Drug Policy", "Public Health and Welfare"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Parks"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2022-01-17T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-03-30T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3fbf146a-98be-446e-8eea-8bbca192e974"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2022/pdf/Senate_authors/Parks.xml"
source_hash: "0a9b290e40dac1cded1841a3008c9571574d723ff9a40ecc82840485223621e5"
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 2818 (2022) — MS Department of Health and MS Department of Revenue; provide certain exemptions for operation required under Medical Cannabis Act.

## 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/2800-2899/SB2818IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/pdf/ham/SB2818_H_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **Amendment No 1 (Cmte Sub) (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/pdf/sam/SB2818_S_(Cmte_Sub)_Amend_01.pdf)
4. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 2818** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB2818.pdf)
5. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/SB/2800-2899/SB2818PS.htm)
6. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/SB/2800-2899/SB2818CS.htm)
7. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/SB/2800-2899/SB2818SG.htm)

## Votes

- Concurrence in Amendment From House — **40–11** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **113–4** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **47–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Parks — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-17T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Public Health and Welfare;Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-31T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPCS: PH To AP
- **2022-02-01T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2022-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2022-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2022-02-15T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2022-02-22T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Drug Policy;Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-24T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: DP To AP
- **2022-03-01T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: AP To DP
- **2022-03-01T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-08T06:00:00+00:00** Read the Third Time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-09T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2022-03-09T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2022-03-10T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2022-03-22T05:00:00+00:00** Concurred in Amend From House
- **2022-03-22T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered
- **2022-03-23T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Tabled
- **2022-03-24T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2022-03-24T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2022-03-30T05:00:00+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/3fbf146a-98be-446e-8eea-8bbca192e974`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).