---
type: "Bill"
title: "City of Water Valley; authorize to enact a tax on restaurants for tourism and parks and recreation."
description: "City of Water Valley; authorize to enact a tax on restaurants for tourism and parks and recreation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 3265"
citation: "Mississippi SB 3265 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Finance", "Local and Private", "Local and Private Legislation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Suber"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-06T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-10T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6c7fcfa2-c0df-44a4-bc3a-4b1b7f1a2bd4"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2025/pdf/Senate_authors/Suber.xml"
source_hash: "4ea705a270e83ab2ebd4ab1078fb0af11a4b63521f29b698a154b888d53eb18a"
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 3265 (2025) — City of Water Valley; authorize to enact a tax on restaurants for tourism and parks and recreation.

## 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/3200-3299/SB3265IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/SB/3200-3299/SB3265PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/SB/3200-3299/SB3265SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **113–1** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **48–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Suber — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Local and Private;Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: LP To FI
- **2025-03-20T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Immediate Release
- **2025-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2025-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Local and Private Legislation `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-01T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-01T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered (Barnett, Hines)
- **2025-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Tabled
- **2025-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2025-04-07T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-04-07T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-04-10T05:00:00+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/6c7fcfa2-c0df-44a4-bc3a-4b1b7f1a2bd4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).