---
type: "Bill"
title: "Mississippi Small Business Investment Company Act; increase the amount of investment tax credits that can be allocated under."
description: "Mississippi Small Business Investment Company Act; increase the amount of investment tax credits that can be allocated under."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 2858"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2858 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Finance", "Ways and Means"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Harkins"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-01-16T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2023-03-21T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e38abc90-f23a-40c2-9113-00c560eeec79"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2023/pdf/House_authors/Blackwell.xml"
source_hash: "3cabf6a2f47158014d40699c2125e3edff1a53977034537a4e5a6b69e3929de8"
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 2858 (2023) — Mississippi Small Business Investment Company Act; increase the amount of investment tax credits that can be allocated under.

## 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/2800-2899/SB2858IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/SB/2800-2899/SB2858PS.htm)
3. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/SB/2800-2899/SB2858CS.htm)
4. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/SB/2800-2899/SB2858SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **49–1** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **111–6** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Harkins — primary (person)
- Blackwell — cosponsor (person)
- Branning — cosponsor (person)
- Parker — cosponsor (person)
- Seymour — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-14T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-20T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2023-02-20T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2023-02-21T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2023-02-22T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2023-03-14T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered (Criswell, Lamar, Steverson)
- **2023-03-16T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Tabled
- **2023-03-16T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2023-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2023-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2023-03-21T05:00:00+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/e38abc90-f23a-40c2-9113-00c560eeec79`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).