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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Mississippi Voting Modernization Act; enact."
description: "Mississippi Voting Modernization Act; enact."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 2879"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2879 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Apportionment and Elections", "Appropriations", "Elections"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tate"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 27
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2022-01-17T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-04-19T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f4cd3402-77f0-4071-becd-a584fca69596"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2022/pdf/Senate_authors/Tate.xml"
source_hash: "415404684f7ba5502a7628cfef8b0fe03abe95646bcf0682cf3b91eff8f28fc2"
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 2879 (2022) — Mississippi Voting Modernization Act; enact.
## 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/2800-2899/SB2879IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 (Cmte Sub) (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/pdf/sam/SB2879_S_(Cmte_Sub)_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 2879** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB2879.pdf)
4. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/SB/2800-2899/SB2879PS.htm)
5. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/pdf/ham/SB2879_H_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
6. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/SB/2800-2899/SB2879CS.htm)
7. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/SB/2800-2899/SB2879SG.htm)
## Votes
- Adopt Conference Report — **1134** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **510** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **1202** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **520** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Tate — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-01-17T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Elections;Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-26T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPCS: EL To AP
- **2022-02-01T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2022-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2022-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2022-02-15T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2022-02-16T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Apportionment and Elections `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-24T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-08T06:00:00+00:00** Read the Third Time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-09T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2022-03-09T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2022-03-10T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2022-03-16T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2022-03-22T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Tate,Blount,Fillingane
- **2022-03-24T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Beckett,Eubanks,Newman
- **2022-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2022-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2022-03-29T05:00:00+00:00** Recommitted For Further Conf
- **2022-03-29T05:00:00+00:00** Recommitted For Further Conf
- **2022-03-29T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2022-03-29T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2022-03-30T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2022-03-30T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2022-04-05T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2022-04-05T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2022-04-19T05:00:00+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/f4cd3402-77f0-4071-becd-a584fca69596`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).