---
type: "Bill"
title: "Income tax credits; increase aggregate amount for certain employers sponsoring employee skills training, and extend repealer."
description: "Income tax credits; increase aggregate amount for certain employers sponsoring employee skills training, and extend repealer."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 3228"
citation: "Mississippi SB 3228 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Finance", "Ways and Means"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Harkins"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2026-02-24T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2026-04-08T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d21da053-a7e0-47dd-aa39-a4395bc2702e"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2026/pdf/House_authors/England.xml"
source_hash: "854c3d839388f336b077fa11068eaeebcb7f1f7a1cbc885152d973e15395b1c2"
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 3228 (2026) — Income tax credits; increase aggregate amount for certain employers sponsoring employee skills training, and extend repealer.

## 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/3200-3299/SB3228IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 to Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2026/pdf/ham/SB3228_H_Amend_01_to_Amend_01.htm)
3. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 3228** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2026/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB3228.pdf)
4. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2026/html/SB/3200-3299/SB3228PS.htm)
5. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2026/pdf/ham/SB3228_H_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
6. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2026/html/SB/3200-3299/SB3228SG.htm)

## Votes

- Adopt Conference Report — **50–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **50–0** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **120–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **121–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Harkins — primary (person)
- England — cosponsor (person)
- Simmons (13th) — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-02-24T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-24T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-25T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2026-02-26T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2026-02-26T06:00:00+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
- **2026-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2026-03-24T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Harkins,Johnson,Sparks
- **2026-03-25T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Lamar,Steverson,Bell (21st)
- **2026-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2026-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2026-03-29T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2026-03-29T05:00:00+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/d21da053-a7e0-47dd-aa39-a4395bc2702e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).