---
type: "Bill"
title: "Universities and colleges; increase certain college renovation funds and require IHL board to develop PPP policies."
description: "Universities and colleges; increase certain college renovation funds and require IHL board to develop PPP policies."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 2518"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2518 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Universities and Colleges"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["DeLano"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 27
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-01-20T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-10T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/68e35dc2-b058-49e6-9eb5-36e7d386588a"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2025/pdf/Senate_authors/DeLano.xml"
source_hash: "58e95ddfa89fcbb33752804105c0630b87c917c69bfb19c0ccca484c010e55b9"
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 2518 (2025) — Universities and colleges; increase certain college renovation funds and require IHL board to develop PPP policies.

## 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/2500-2599/SB2518IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/ham/SB2518_H_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **Amendment No 3 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/ham/SB2518_H_Amend_03.pdf)
4. **Amendment No 4 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/ham/SB2518_H_Amend_04.pdf)
5. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 2518** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB2518.pdf)
6. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/SB/2500-2599/SB2518PS.htm)
7. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/SB/2500-2599/SB2518CS.htm)
8. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/SB/2500-2599/SB2518SG.htm)
9. **Substitute No 2 for Amendment No 2 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/ham/SB2518_H_Subst_2_for_Amend_02.pdf)

## Votes

- Passage as Amended — **116–0** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **77–35** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **50–1** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **117–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- DeLano — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-20T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Universities and Colleges `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-30T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-05T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2025-02-05T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-06T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2025-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Universities and Colleges `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-27T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Read the Third Time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2025-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered (Scoggin, Holloway (76th))
- **2025-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Reconsidered
- **2025-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2025-03-14T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2025-03-19T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2025-03-20T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Boyd,DeLano,Williams
- **2025-03-25T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Scoggin,Bell (21st),Holloway (76th)
- **2025-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2025-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2025-04-01T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2025-04-01T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered (Scoggin, Holloway (76th))
- **2025-04-01T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2025-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Tabled
- **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/68e35dc2-b058-49e6-9eb5-36e7d386588a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).