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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Appropriation; Oil and Gas Board."
+description: "Appropriation; Oil and Gas Board."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
+legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 1609"
+citation: "Mississippi HB 1609 (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: "2018-04-11T05:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/84db39c8-28cf-4a43-ab9f-2f717ef2846b"
+source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2018/pdf//history/HB/HB1609.xml"
+source_hash: "4c39eb7c6860f8ec066c08f9892ff1a5fe22f011920befe1d9a4716d1998e7c5"
+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 1609 (2018) — Appropriation; Oil and Gas Board.
+
+## 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/HB1609IN.htm)
+2. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2018/html/HB/1600-1699/HB1609PS.htm)
+3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2018/html/HB/1600-1699/HB1609SG.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Adopt Conference Report — **52–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Passage — **117–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Passage as Amended — **52–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Adopt Conference Report — **114–2** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Read — primary (person)
+- Bennett — cosponsor (person)
+- Bounds — cosponsor (person)
+- Busby — cosponsor (person)
+- DeLano — cosponsor (person)
+- Eure — cosponsor (person)
+- Huddleston_(15th) — cosponsor (person)
+- Huddleston_(30th) — cosponsor (person)
+- Ladner — 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,Bounds,Staples
+- **2018-03-21T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Clarke,Carmichael,Wilemon
+- **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
+- **2018-04-11T05:00:00+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/84db39c8-28cf-4a43-ab9f-2f717ef2846b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).
+