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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Appropriation; Forestry Commission."
+description: "Appropriation; Forestry Commission."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
+legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 1604"
+citation: "Mississippi HB 1604 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Appropriations"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Read"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2018-02-12T06:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2018-04-13T05:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/56ebb106-6448-425a-abe5-71e7f1769c06"
+source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2018/pdf//history/HB/HB1604.xml"
+source_hash: "21d2ee29b05712833d7d7f3e88a705b41be57c8583ffdbd95d31289d6e0e78b3"
+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 1604 (2018) — Appropriation; Forestry Commission.
+
+## 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/2018/html/HB/1600-1699/HB1604IN.htm)
+2. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2018/html/HB/1600-1699/HB1604PS.htm)
+3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2018/html/HB/1600-1699/HB1604SG.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Adopt Conference Report — **52–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Adopt Conference Report — **116–2** (pass) · legislature
+- Passage as Amended — **52–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Passage — **106–6** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Read — primary (person)
+- Barton — cosponsor (person)
+- Bennett — cosponsor (person)
+- Bounds — cosponsor (person)
+- Boyd — cosponsor (person)
+- Busby — cosponsor (person)
+- DeLano — cosponsor (person)
+- Eure — cosponsor (person)
+- Huddleston_(15th) — cosponsor (person)
+- Huddleston_(30th) — cosponsor (person)
+- Ladner — cosponsor (person)
+- Massengill — cosponsor (person)
+- Staples — cosponsor (person)
+- Sullivan — cosponsor (person)
+- Turner — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2018-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
+- **2018-02-14T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
+- **2018-02-15T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
+- **2018-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2018-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
+- **2018-03-14T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
+- **2018-03-15T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
+- **2018-03-19T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Read,Sullivan,Pigott
+- **2018-03-21T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Clarke,Carmichael,Moran
+- **2018-03-24T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
+- **2018-03-24T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
+- **2018-03-25T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
+- **2018-03-25T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
+- **2018-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
+- **2018-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
+- **2018-04-13T05:00:00+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/56ebb106-6448-425a-abe5-71e7f1769c06`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).
+