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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Appropriation; Real Estate Appraiser Licensing and Certification Board."
+description: "Appropriation; Real Estate Appraiser Licensing and Certification Board."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
+legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 1608"
+citation: "Mississippi HB 1608 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Appropriations"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Read"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2023-02-13T06:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2023-04-17T05:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f6241710-3146-41a1-9ddc-3adc7ceea945"
+source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2023/pdf/House_authors/Bounds.xml"
+source_hash: "ba513ffb4abf8c8d9def2e08026fd768345725f859a42cf7e2a708459c1fad1a"
+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 1608 (2023) — Appropriation; Real Estate Appraiser Licensing and Certification Board.
+
+## 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/2023/html/HB/1600-1699/HB1608IN.htm)
+2. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 1608** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB1608.pdf)
+3. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/HB/1600-1699/HB1608PS.htm)
+4. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/pdf/sam/HB1608_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
+5. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/HB/1600-1699/HB1608SG.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Adopt Conference Report — **114–4** (pass) · lower
+- Passage as Amended — **52–0** (pass) · upper
+- Adopt Conference Report — **52–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Read — primary (person)
+- Bounds — cosponsor (person)
+- Busby — cosponsor (person)
+- Cockerham — cosponsor (person)
+- Hale — cosponsor (person)
+- Haney — cosponsor (person)
+- Hines — cosponsor (person)
+- Huddleston — cosponsor (person)
+- Jackson — cosponsor (person)
+- Ladner — cosponsor (person)
+- Oliver — cosponsor (person)
+- Scoggin — cosponsor (person)
+- Turner — cosponsor (person)
+- Watson — cosponsor (person)
+- Young — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-14T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2023-02-15T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
+- **2023-02-16T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
+- **2023-02-20T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-09T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
+- **2023-03-09T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2023-03-09T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
+- **2023-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
+- **2023-03-14T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
+- **2023-03-15T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Read,Oliver,Horan
+- **2023-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Hopson,Michel,Wiggins
+- **2023-03-25T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
+- **2023-03-25T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
+- **2023-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
+- **2023-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
+- **2023-03-31T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
+- **2023-03-31T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
+- **2023-04-17T05:00:00+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/f6241710-3146-41a1-9ddc-3adc7ceea945`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).
+