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+type: "Bill"
+title: "County school board trustees; require runoff election if no candidate receives majority of votes cast."
+description: "County school board trustees; require runoff election if no candidate receives majority of votes cast."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
+legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 654"
+citation: "Mississippi HB 654 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Education"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Sanford"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-01-16T06:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2019-03-15T05:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d53d279b-006a-44f8-acb0-c38962801270"
+source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2019/pdf/House_authors/Sanford.xml"
+source_hash: "5e29837420885ce0fe756398e277a735b7204c3a3c60bbf44a8e9800f73b3856"
+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 654 (2019) — County school board trustees; require runoff election if no candidate receives majority of votes cast.
+
+## 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/2019/html/HB/0600-0699/HB0654IN.htm)
+2. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/HB/0600-0699/HB0654PS.htm)
+3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/HB/0600-0699/HB0654SG.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **52–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passage — **116–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Sanford — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Education `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-31T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2019-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
+- **2019-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered (Hines, Bennett, Roberson)
+- **2019-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Tabled
+- **2019-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
+- **2019-02-26T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Education `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2019-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
+- **2019-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
+- **2019-03-08T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
+- **2019-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
+- **2019-03-15T05:00:00+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/d53d279b-006a-44f8-acb0-c38962801270`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).
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