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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Mississippi Equal Pay for Equal Work Act; create."
+description: "Mississippi Equal Pay for Equal Work Act; create."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
+legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
+session: "2022"
+identifier: "HB 770"
+citation: "Mississippi HB 770 (2022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Judiciary A", "Judiciary", "Division A"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Cockerham"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 25
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2022-01-17T06:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2022-04-20T05:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/32341c0d-4192-4564-8b97-a8057ece7a6d"
+source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2022/pdf/House_authors/Arnold.xml"
+source_hash: "f3b490482b902e25b9488d4d6fcd8b0cdee51b5d3726824828cdd88f8dacdf09"
+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 770 (2022) — Mississippi Equal Pay for Equal Work Act; create.
+
+## 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/0700-0799/HB0770IN.htm)
+2. **Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/pdf/ham/HB0770_H_Amend_01.pdf)
+3. **Amendment No 2 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/pdf/sam/HB0770_S_Amend_02.pdf)
+4. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 770** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB0770.pdf)
+5. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/HB/0700-0799/HB0770PS.htm)
+6. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/HB/0700-0799/HB0770SG.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage as Amended — **42–9** (pass) · upper
+- Adopt Conference Report — **111–6** (pass) · lower
+- Passage as Amended — **114–6** (pass) · lower
+- Adopt Conference Report — **40–5** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Cockerham — primary (person)
+- Arnold — cosponsor (person)
+- Bailey — cosponsor (person)
+- Byrd — cosponsor (person)
+- Foster — cosponsor (person)
+- Gibbs (72nd) — cosponsor (person)
+- Gunn — cosponsor (person)
+- Harness — cosponsor (person)
+- Karriem — cosponsor (person)
+- McGee — cosponsor (person)
+- Mickens — cosponsor (person)
+- Miles — cosponsor (person)
+- Paden — cosponsor (person)
+- Stamps — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-01-17T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary A `referral-committee`
+- **2022-01-18T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2022-01-20T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2022-01-20T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
+- **2022-01-21T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
+- **2022-02-04T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary, Division A `referral-committee`
+- **2022-03-01T06:00:00+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
+- **2022-03-24T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Cockerham,White,Tullos
+- **2022-03-25T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Wiggins,Boyd,Parker
+- **2022-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
+- **2022-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
+- **2022-03-29T05:00:00+00:00** Recommitted For Further Conf
+- **2022-03-29T05:00:00+00:00** Recommitted For Further Conf
+- **2022-03-29T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
+- **2022-03-29T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
+- **2022-03-29T05:00:00+00:00** Suspend from Deadlines by HC 89
+- **2022-03-30T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
+- **2022-03-30T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
+- **2022-04-04T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
+- **2022-04-04T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
+- **2022-04-20T05:00:00+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/32341c0d-4192-4564-8b97-a8057ece7a6d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).
+