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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Qualification deadlines; change for special and school board elections."
description: "Qualification deadlines; change for special and school board elections."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 2659"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2659 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Apportionment and Elections", "Elections"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["England"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-20T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-13T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/aeb8dd4e-0c3a-4133-a65c-1c4a2577cce8"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2025/pdf/Senate_authors/England.xml"
source_hash: "862a35a34cabed923d40e44f2da5ef47bbcfc5df9207c44b60b6f0ec8fe4e113"
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 2659 (2025) — Qualification deadlines; change for special and school board elections.
## 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/2600-2699/SB2659IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/SB/2600-2699/SB2659PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/SB/2600-2699/SB2659SG.htm)
## Votes
- Passage — **1170** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **510** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- England — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-20T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Elections `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-30T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-06T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-07T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2025-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Apportionment and Elections `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-27T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2025-03-10T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-03-13T05:00:00+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/aeb8dd4e-0c3a-4133-a65c-1c4a2577cce8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).