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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "State Flag; revise with a commission and require words \"In God We Trust.\""
+description: "State Flag; revise with a commission and require words \"In God We Trust.\""
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
+legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 1796"
+citation: "Mississippi HB 1796 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Rules"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Gunn"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2020-06-28T05:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2020-06-30T05:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0f13f8fa-1308-493c-a6e3-b55c73a6eed2"
+source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2020/pdf/House_authors/Anderson_(110th).xml"
+source_hash: "2994a562e8d65c4fa11f2964fb6a1142d4e8e024ac09ea1630cc08503eba62a8"
+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 1796 (2020) — State Flag; revise with a commission and require words "In God We Trust."
+
+## 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/2020/html/HB/1700-1799/HB1796IN.htm)
+2. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/HB/1700-1799/HB1796PS.htm)
+3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/HB/1700-1799/HB1796SG.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **37–14** (pass) · upper
+- Passage — **92–23** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Gunn — primary (person)
+- Anderson (110th) — cosponsor (person)
+- Anthony — cosponsor (person)
+- Banks — cosponsor (person)
+- Bell (65th) — cosponsor (person)
+- Brown (70th) — cosponsor (person)
+- Burnett — cosponsor (person)
+- Clark — cosponsor (person)
+- Crudup — cosponsor (person)
+- Denton — cosponsor (person)
+- Evans (91st) — cosponsor (person)
+- Faulkner — cosponsor (person)
+- Ford (73rd) — cosponsor (person)
+- Foster — cosponsor (person)
+- Gibbs (72nd) — cosponsor (person)
+- Harness — cosponsor (person)
+- Hines — cosponsor (person)
+- Holloway — cosponsor (person)
+- Hudson — cosponsor (person)
+- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Karriem — cosponsor (person)
+- McCray — cosponsor (person)
+- McGee — cosponsor (person)
+- Mickens — cosponsor (person)
+- Osborne — cosponsor (person)
+- Paden — cosponsor (person)
+- Porter — cosponsor (person)
+- Reynolds — cosponsor (person)
+- Rosebud — cosponsor (person)
+- Scott — cosponsor (person)
+- Summers — cosponsor (person)
+- Taylor — cosponsor (person)
+- Walker — cosponsor (person)
+- White — cosponsor (person)
+- Williams-Barnes — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-06-28T05:00:00+00:00** Suspend from Deadlines by HC 79
+- **2020-06-28T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Rules `referral-committee`
+- **2020-06-28T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2020-06-28T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
+- **2020-06-28T05:00:00+00:00** Immediate Release
+- **2020-06-28T05:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
+- **2020-06-28T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Rules `referral-committee`
+- **2020-06-28T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2020-06-28T05:00:00+00:00** Amendment Tabled
+- **2020-06-28T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
+- **2020-06-28T05:00:00+00:00** Immediate Release
+- **2020-06-28T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
+- **2020-06-28T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
+- **2020-06-28T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
+- **2020-06-30T05:00:00+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/0f13f8fa-1308-493c-a6e3-b55c73a6eed2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).
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