---
type: "Bill"
title: "Economic development projects; expand local government authority to enter certain agreements in support of."
description: "Economic development projects; expand local government authority to enter certain agreements in support of."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 2846"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2846 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Finance", "Ways and Means"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sparks"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 14
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-20T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-13T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/114ee47b-69ad-4f87-8289-8b95ce3b01a7"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2025/pdf/House_authors/Harkins.xml"
source_hash: "d226a703ea08484b788ebf9006298b0eea67a5fab1ae38acb157e33649d7b01a"
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 2846 (2025) — Economic development projects; expand local government authority to enter certain agreements in support of.

## 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/2800-2899/SB2846IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/sam/SB2846_S_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/SB/2800-2899/SB2846PS.htm)
4. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/SB/2800-2899/SB2846SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **51–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **119–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **51–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Sparks — primary (person)
- Harkins — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-20T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-04T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Reconsidered
- **2025-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2025-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2025-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2025-03-10T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-03-13T05:00:00+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/114ee47b-69ad-4f87-8289-8b95ce3b01a7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).