---
type: "Bill"
title: "Mississippi Foreign Land Ownership Act; create."
description: "Mississippi Foreign Land Ownership Act; create."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 2519"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2519 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Agriculture", "Judiciary", "Division A"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McCaughn"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-16T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-04-15T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5d75a38a-a8d3-4c2f-85ad-543b1ec58d4f"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2024/pdf/House_authors/Barrett.xml"
source_hash: "0c2757f3da83e0c3ac7ab140bd96f691cfa52efb209ecce4895241ab895b47a9"
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 2519 (2024) — Mississippi Foreign Land Ownership Act; create.

## 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/2024/html/SB/2500-2599/SB2519IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/2500-2599/SB2519PS.htm)
3. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/2500-2599/SB2519CS.htm)
4. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/2500-2599/SB2519SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **51–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **103–6** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- McCaughn — primary (person)
- Barrett — cosponsor (person)
- Berry — cosponsor (person)
- Blackwell — cosponsor (person)
- Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Branning — cosponsor (person)
- Carter — cosponsor (person)
- England — cosponsor (person)
- Fillingane — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Ladner — cosponsor (person)
- McLendon — cosponsor (person)
- McMahan — cosponsor (person)
- Parker — cosponsor (person)
- Rhodes — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Seymour — cosponsor (person)
- Sparks — cosponsor (person)
- Suber — cosponsor (person)
- Whaley — cosponsor (person)
- Wiggins — cosponsor (person)
- Williams — cosponsor (person)
- Younger — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-16T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary, Division A `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-29T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-08T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2024-03-08T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2024-03-14T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Agriculture `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2024-04-04T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-05T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2024-04-08T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-04-08T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-04-15T05:00:00+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/5d75a38a-a8d3-4c2f-85ad-543b1ec58d4f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).