---
type: "Bill"
title: "County-owned real estate; establish competitive bidding process for lease or sale."
description: "County-owned real estate; establish competitive bidding process for lease or sale."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 2312"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2312 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Accountability", "Efficiency", "Transparency", "County Affairs"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Johnson"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 14
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-01-16T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2023-03-14T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d52483f3-6957-440d-b47d-39b4f8f21adf"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2023/pdf/Senate_authors/Johnson.xml"
source_hash: "54668d43983b74be7678a870525bc660e368750a0559a3f6fbd863eba8cc8054"
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 2312 (2023) — County-owned real estate; establish competitive bidding process for lease or sale.

## 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/2023/html/SB/2300-2399/SB2312IN.htm)
2. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 2312** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB2312.pdf)
3. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/SB/2300-2399/SB2312PS.htm)
4. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/pdf/ham/SB2312_H_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
5. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/SB/2300-2399/SB2312SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage as Amended — **113–6** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **52–0** (pass) · upper
- Concurrence in Amendment From House — **52–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Johnson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To County Affairs;Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-31T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: CA To AC
- **2023-01-31T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-08T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2023-02-09T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2023-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To County Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-22T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-23T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2023-02-23T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2023-02-24T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2023-03-02T06:00:00+00:00** Concurred in Amend From House
- **2023-03-08T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2023-03-08T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2023-03-14T05:00:00+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/d52483f3-6957-440d-b47d-39b4f8f21adf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).