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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Oil and gas severance; revise date by taxes are due."
+description: "Oil and gas severance; revise date by taxes are due."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
+legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 977"
+citation: "Mississippi HB 977 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Ways and Means", "Energy", "Finance"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Powell"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 12
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2020-02-14T06:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2020-06-22T05:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/26c69db9-2e79-4c8a-8a90-bfe727cb8b4f"
+source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2020/pdf/House_authors/Powell.xml"
+source_hash: "cb18e9fa891b55e9be2f914905042fd8ce995b7f7fc18c60b42cee3aff90654e"
+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 977 (2020) — Oil and gas severance; revise date by taxes are due.
+
+## 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/0900-0999/HB0977IN.htm)
+2. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/HB/0900-0999/HB0977PS.htm)
+3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/HB/0900-0999/HB0977SG.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **119–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **51–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Powell — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-02-14T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2020-03-03T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2020-03-10T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
+- **2020-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
+- **2020-05-12T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Energy;Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2020-06-04T05:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: EN To FI
+- **2020-06-09T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2020-06-10T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
+- **2020-06-11T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
+- **2020-06-15T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
+- **2020-06-16T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
+- **2020-06-22T05:00:00+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/26c69db9-2e79-4c8a-8a90-bfe727cb8b4f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).
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