---
type: "Bill"
title: "IHL; extend repealer date and create the Mississippi Association of Independent Colleges and Universities Grant Program."
description: "IHL; extend repealer date and create the Mississippi Association of Independent Colleges and Universities Grant Program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 2700"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2700 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Universities and Colleges"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Harkins"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2022-01-17T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-04-21T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b989f7f3-6080-4fdb-873c-a94da2d79d29"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2022/pdf/Senate_authors/Harkins.xml"
source_hash: "bdedb5ce9f0619addb0807f407f94a1a87a6bc3a61f663a6e1f37b9b97b829ed"
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 2700 (2022) — IHL; extend repealer date and create the Mississippi Association of Independent Colleges and Universities Grant Program.

## 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/2022/html/SB/2700-2799/SB2700IN.htm)
2. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 2700** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB2700.pdf)
3. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/SB/2700-2799/SB2700PS.htm)
4. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/SB/2700-2799/SB2700SG.htm)
5. **Substitute No 1 for Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/pdf/ham/SB2700_H_Subst_1_for_Amend_01.pdf)

## Votes

- Adopt Conference Report — **117–5** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **115–5** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **52–0** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **52–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Harkins — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-17T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Universities and Colleges `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-27T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-08T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2022-02-09T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2022-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Universities and Colleges `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-23T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-08T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2022-03-08T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2022-03-09T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2022-03-16T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2022-03-21T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Parks,Harkins,Polk
- **2022-03-24T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Huddleston,Scoggin,McLean
- **2022-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2022-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2022-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2022-03-30T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2022-04-04T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2022-04-04T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2022-04-21T05:00:00+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/b989f7f3-6080-4fdb-873c-a94da2d79d29`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).