---
type: "Bill"
title: "Construction bids; amend prequalified construction provisions."
description: "Construction bids; amend prequalified construction provisions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 2298"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2298 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Accountability", "Efficiency", "Transparency", "Public Property"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Williams"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-20T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-21T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/36ca00d4-ef30-4f0f-8a18-9caceb6b972d"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2025/pdf/Senate_authors/Williams.xml"
source_hash: "8ec0f75416161783c00d4533bf90dda550d71c87957f5d81c97671e2e21d22b7"
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 2298 (2025) — Construction bids; amend prequalified construction provisions.

## 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/2025/html/SB/2200-2299/SB2298IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/SB/2200-2299/SB2298PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/SB/2200-2299/SB2298SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **50–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **114–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Williams — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-20T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Public Property `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-29T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-07T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2025-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Read the Third Time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2025-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-03-21T05:00:00+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/36ca00d4-ef30-4f0f-8a18-9caceb6b972d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).