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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Livestock on highways; delete burden on owner of livestock to prove lack of negligence when damages from."
+description: "Livestock on highways; delete burden on owner of livestock to prove lack of negligence when damages from."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
+legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 576"
+citation: "Mississippi HB 576 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Judiciary A", "Judiciary", "Division A"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Wallace"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2020-02-05T06:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2020-07-08T05:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4252346c-cb45-40b6-b3de-bd4a04b267fe"
+source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2020/pdf/House_authors/Barnett.xml"
+source_hash: "2a02d68903db1825c7cb6308e8e1115a561c8f15c70db612d346dea35a7b037f"
+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 576 (2020) — Livestock on highways; delete burden on owner of livestock to prove lack of negligence when damages from.
+
+## 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/0500-0599/HB0576IN.htm)
+2. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 576** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB0576.pdf)
+3. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/HB/0500-0599/HB0576PS.htm)
+4. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/pdf/sam/HB0576_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
+5. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/pdf/ham/HB0576_H_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
+6. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/HB/0500-0599/HB0576SG.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Adopt Conference Report — **36–9** (pass) · upper
+- Adopt Conference Report — **102–10** (pass) · lower
+- Passage as Amended — **37–13** (pass) · upper
+- Passage as Amended — **107–7** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Wallace — primary (person)
+- Barnett — cosponsor (person)
+- Calvert — cosponsor (person)
+- Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
+- Evans (45th) — cosponsor (person)
+- Ford (54th) — cosponsor (person)
+- Gibbs (36th) — cosponsor (person)
+- Horan — cosponsor (person)
+- Huddleston — cosponsor (person)
+- Lamar — cosponsor (person)
+- Lancaster — cosponsor (person)
+- Massengill — cosponsor (person)
+- Newman — cosponsor (person)
+- Pigott — cosponsor (person)
+- Shanks — cosponsor (person)
+- Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Steverson — cosponsor (person)
+- Walker — cosponsor (person)
+- Weathersby — cosponsor (person)
+- White — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-02-05T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary A `referral-committee`
+- **2020-03-03T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
+- **2020-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Tabled Subject To Call
+- **2020-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2020-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
+- **2020-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
+- **2020-05-11T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary, Division A `referral-committee`
+- **2020-06-09T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
+- **2020-06-15T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2020-06-15T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
+- **2020-06-16T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
+- **2020-06-24T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
+- **2020-06-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Cockerham,Felsher,Hood
+- **2020-06-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Doty,McCaughn,England
+- **2020-06-29T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Cockerham,Blackmon,Tullos
+- **2020-06-29T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
+- **2020-06-29T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
+- **2020-06-30T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
+- **2020-06-30T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
+- **2020-07-02T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
+- **2020-07-02T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
+- **2020-07-08T05:00:00+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/4252346c-cb45-40b6-b3de-bd4a04b267fe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).
+