---
type: "Bill"
title: "Cloud Center of Excellence; establish for phased-in cloud computing and storage by state agencies and governing authorities."
description: "Cloud Center of Excellence; establish for phased-in cloud computing and storage by state agencies and governing authorities."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1491"
citation: "Mississippi HB 1491 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations", "State Affairs", "Technology"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Zuber"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 28
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-01-20T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-17T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9257b63c-3d01-4ce9-b45e-e0619fbba937"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2025/pdf/House_authors/Ford_(73rd).xml"
source_hash: "0685ba93b33f24480ffb010b56abb1626eaa7f8b68c38b6f1d41bb52852db058"
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 HB 1491 (2025) — Cloud Center of Excellence; establish for phased-in cloud computing and storage by state agencies and governing authorities.

## 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/HB/1400-1499/HB1491IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 2 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/sam/HB1491_S_Amend_02.pdf)
3. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 1491** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB1491.pdf)
4. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/1400-1499/HB1491PS.htm)
5. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/1400-1499/HB1491CS.htm)
6. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/1400-1499/HB1491SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage as Amended — **51–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **116–0** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **119–0** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Zuber — primary (person)
- Ford (73rd) — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-20T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To State Affairs;Technology `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-04T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPCS: SA To TE
- **2025-02-04T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPCS: TE To SA
- **2025-02-04T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2025-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2025-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Technology;Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-03T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPAA: TE To AP
- **2025-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2025-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2025-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2025-03-21T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Zuber,Shanks,Massengill
- **2025-03-21T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named DeLano,Williams,Johnson
- **2025-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Zuber,Massengill,Ford (73rd)
- **2025-03-31T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2025-03-31T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2025-04-01T05:00:00+00:00** Recommitted For Further Conf
- **2025-04-01T05:00:00+00:00** Recommitted For Further Conf
- **2025-04-01T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2025-04-01T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2025-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2025-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2025-04-07T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-04-07T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-04-17T05:00:00+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/9257b63c-3d01-4ce9-b45e-e0619fbba937`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).