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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Central Market Board; abolish and transfer functions of to the Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce."
+description: "Central Market Board; abolish and transfer functions of to the Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
+legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "HB 312"
+citation: "Mississippi HB 312 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Accountability", "Efficiency", "Transparency", "Agriculture"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Pigott"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2021-01-18T06:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2021-03-17T05:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/19f0d0b4-75f4-444c-a611-86729d9e8231"
+source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2021/pdf/House_authors/Hopkins.xml"
+source_hash: "b3a6f1affa36124eb6d53e66ce32639fb9a048607d375520731991261418735a"
+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 312 (2021) — Central Market Board; abolish and transfer functions of to the Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce.
+
+## 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/2021/html/HB/0300-0399/HB0312IN.htm)
+2. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/HB/0300-0399/HB0312PS.htm)
+3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/HB/0300-0399/HB0312SG.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **52–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passage — **118–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Pigott — primary (person)
+- Hopkins — cosponsor (person)
+- Mangold — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-01-18T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Agriculture `referral-committee`
+- **2021-01-26T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2021-02-03T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
+- **2021-02-04T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
+- **2021-02-22T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-02T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2021-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
+- **2021-03-08T06:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered
+- **2021-03-10T06:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Tabled
+- **2021-03-10T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
+- **2021-03-11T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
+- **2021-03-11T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
+- **2021-03-17T05:00:00+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/19f0d0b4-75f4-444c-a611-86729d9e8231`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).
+