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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "County veteran service officers; revise certain provisions regarding certification."
+description: "County veteran service officers; revise certain provisions regarding certification."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
+legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
+session: "2022"
+identifier: "HB 677"
+citation: "Mississippi HB 677 (2022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Military Affairs", "Veterans and Military Affairs"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Carpenter"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2022-01-17T06:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2022-04-14T05:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a80335f9-38cc-4648-95ff-0ca87bd5e001"
+source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2022/pdf/House_authors/Carpenter.xml"
+source_hash: "90c48dfeb6da1b2079660853019e62319c443ef4da9e68b24b2603884dbbb5d7"
+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 677 (2022) — County veteran service officers; revise certain provisions regarding certification.
+
+## 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/2022/html/HB/0600-0699/HB0677IN.htm)
+2. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 677** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB0677.pdf)
+3. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/HB/0600-0699/HB0677PS.htm)
+4. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/pdf/sam/HB0677_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
+5. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/HB/0600-0699/HB0677SG.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Adopt Conference Report — **118–0** (pass) · lower
+- Adopt Conference Report — **52–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passage as Amended — **52–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passage — **122–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Carpenter — primary (person)
+- Stamps — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-01-17T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Military Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2022-01-25T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2022-02-02T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
+- **2022-02-03T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
+- **2022-02-04T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Veterans and Military Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-28T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
+- **2022-03-09T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2022-03-09T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
+- **2022-03-10T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
+- **2022-03-14T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
+- **2022-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Carpenter,Newman,Hopkins
+- **2022-03-23T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Seymour,DeLano,McMahan
+- **2022-03-25T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
+- **2022-03-25T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
+- **2022-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
+- **2022-03-29T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
+- **2022-03-31T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
+- **2022-03-31T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
+- **2022-04-14T05:00:00+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/a80335f9-38cc-4648-95ff-0ca87bd5e001`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).
+