---
type: "Bill"
title: "Homestead; provide full exemption for unremarried surviving spouse of U.S. military member killed on active duty or training."
description: "Homestead; provide full exemption for unremarried surviving spouse of U.S. military member killed on active duty or training."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 2700"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2700 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Finance", "Ways and Means"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["DeBar"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-01-16T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2023-03-10T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/12871df4-2e84-4480-b40c-78766dd34ef8"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2023/pdf/House_authors/Barnett.xml"
source_hash: "c7184663e55e2604a8997a9bffbf3ef7e7b47cccf441b6557132535f44454b28"
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 (2023) — Homestead; provide full exemption for unremarried surviving spouse of U.S. military member killed on active duty or training.

## 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/2023/html/SB/2700-2799/SB2700IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/SB/2700-2799/SB2700PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/SB/2700-2799/SB2700SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **117–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **51–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- DeBar — primary (person)
- Barnett — cosponsor (person)
- Barrett — cosponsor (person)
- Blackwell — cosponsor (person)
- Blount — cosponsor (person)
- Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Branning — cosponsor (person)
- Bryan — cosponsor (person)
- Butler (36th) — cosponsor (person)
- Butler (38th) — cosponsor (person)
- Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Caughman — cosponsor (person)
- Chassaniol — cosponsor (person)
- Chism — cosponsor (person)
- DeLano — cosponsor (person)
- England — cosponsor (person)
- Fillingane — cosponsor (person)
- Frazier — cosponsor (person)
- Harkins — cosponsor (person)
- Hickman — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Hopson — cosponsor (person)
- Horhn — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Kirby — cosponsor (person)
- McCaughn — cosponsor (person)
- McDaniel — cosponsor (person)
- McLendon — cosponsor (person)
- McMahan — cosponsor (person)
- Michel — cosponsor (person)
- Moran — cosponsor (person)
- Norwood — cosponsor (person)
- Parker — cosponsor (person)
- Parks — cosponsor (person)
- Polk — cosponsor (person)
- Seymour — cosponsor (person)
- Simmons (12th) — cosponsor (person)
- Simmons (13th) — cosponsor (person)
- Sojourner — cosponsor (person)
- Sparks — cosponsor (person)
- Suber — cosponsor (person)
- Tate — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas — cosponsor (person)
- Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Whaley — cosponsor (person)
- Wiggins — cosponsor (person)
- Williams — cosponsor (person)
- Younger — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-21T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-22T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2023-02-23T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2023-02-23T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-28T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-02T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2023-03-03T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2023-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2023-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2023-03-10T06:00:00+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/12871df4-2e84-4480-b40c-78766dd34ef8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).