---
type: "Bill"
title: "MS Health Care Industry Zone Act; revise certification requirements and extend repealer on act and related incentives."
description: "MS Health Care Industry Zone Act; revise certification requirements and extend repealer on act and related incentives."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 2825"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2825 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Finance", "Ways and Means"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Harkins"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2026-01-19T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2026-04-08T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/12feec6e-cb10-4fce-bcfa-fc77a9813cba"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2026/pdf/Senate_authors/Harkins.xml"
source_hash: "018e5340560291f3d177c5e7b8d9ab14467c3cdd97c4ce37fe67009d2dc0eef6"
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 2825 (2026) — MS Health Care Industry Zone Act; revise certification requirements and extend repealer on act and related incentives.

## 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/2026/html/SB/2800-2899/SB2825IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2026/pdf/sam/SB2825_S_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 2825** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2026/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB2825.pdf)
4. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2026/html/SB/2800-2899/SB2825PS.htm)
5. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2026/pdf/ham/SB2825_H_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
6. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2026/html/SB/2800-2899/SB2825SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage as Amended — **48–4** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **50–1** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **120–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **120–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Harkins — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-19T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-29T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2026-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2026-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2026-02-16T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-03T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2026-03-05T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2026-03-05T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2026-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2026-03-10T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2026-03-24T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Harkins,Johnson,Fillingane
- **2026-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Lamar,Steverson,Zuber
- **2026-03-29T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2026-03-29T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2026-03-30T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2026-03-30T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2026-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2026-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2026-04-08T05:00:00+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/12feec6e-cb10-4fce-bcfa-fc77a9813cba`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).