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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Municipalities with a certain population; allow to establish overdue water/sewer programs."
+description: "Municipalities with a certain population; allow to establish overdue water/sewer programs."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
+legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "HB 359"
+citation: "Mississippi HB 359 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Accountability", "Efficiency", "Transparency", "Municipalities"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bell"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2021-01-18T06:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2021-04-18T05:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a4dd241f-deb0-4ad1-8e6b-f7f030313b09"
+source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2021/pdf/House_authors/Bell_(65th).xml"
+source_hash: "adcd5064f49e073e964fdc0286d1f5ff059bca065ab9d0e5465f0c31530c72fe"
+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 359 (2021) — Municipalities with a certain population; allow to establish overdue water/sewer programs.
+
+## 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/HB0359IN.htm)
+2. **Amendment No 1 (Cmte Sub) (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/pdf/ham/HB0359_H_(Cmte_Sub)_Amend_01.pdf)
+3. **Amendment No 1 to Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/pdf/sam/HB0359_S_Amend_01_to_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
+4. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 359** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB0359.pdf)
+5. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/HB/0300-0399/HB0359PS.htm)
+6. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/pdf/sam/HB0359_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
+7. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/HB/0300-0399/HB0359CS.htm)
+8. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/HB/0300-0399/HB0359SG.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage as Amended — **31–9** (pass) · upper
+- Passage as Amended — **119–1** (pass) · lower
+- Adopt Conference Report — **48–3** (pass) · upper
+- Adopt Conference Report — **121–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bell — primary (person)
+- Brown (70th) — cosponsor (person)
+- Crudup — cosponsor (person)
+- Gibbs (72nd) — cosponsor (person)
+- Holloway — cosponsor (person)
+- Stamps — cosponsor (person)
+- Yates — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-01-18T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Municipalities `referral-committee`
+- **2021-01-28T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
+- **2021-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Read the Third Time `reading-3`
+- **2021-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
+- **2021-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2021-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
+- **2021-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
+- **2021-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-02T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
+- **2021-03-10T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2021-03-10T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
+- **2021-03-12T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
+- **2021-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
+- **2021-03-22T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Rushing,Crudup,Stamps
+- **2021-03-25T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Polk,Blount,Thompson
+- **2021-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
+- **2021-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
+- **2021-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
+- **2021-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
+- **2021-03-30T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
+- **2021-03-30T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
+- **2021-04-18T05:00:00+00:00** Law W/out Governor's Signature `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a4dd241f-deb0-4ad1-8e6b-f7f030313b09`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).
+