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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Foreign governments; prohibit sale of agricultural lands to."
+description: "Foreign governments; prohibit sale of agricultural lands to."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
+legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 280"
+citation: "Mississippi HB 280 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Agriculture"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Currie"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2023-01-09T06:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2023-03-21T05:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b70c7973-242a-48e8-a1d0-2df7ffdb3cca"
+source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2023/pdf/House_authors/Arnold.xml"
+source_hash: "19c2458339385cb44147f50c0e2184d491103a542fcbf203ab6f8ceb781ad478"
+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 280 (2023) — Foreign governments; prohibit sale of agricultural lands to.
+
+## 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/0200-0299/HB0280IN.htm)
+2. **Amendment No 2 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/pdf/ham/HB0280_H_Amend_02.pdf)
+3. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 280** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB0280.pdf)
+4. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/HB/0200-0299/HB0280PS.htm)
+5. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/pdf/sam/HB0280_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
+6. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/HB/0200-0299/HB0280SG.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage as Amended — **114–3** (pass) · lower
+- Concurrence in Amendment From Senate — **115–2** (pass) · lower
+- Passage as Amended — **52–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Currie — primary (person)
+- Arnold — cosponsor (person)
+- Brown (20th) — cosponsor (person)
+- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
+- Hobgood-Wilkes — cosponsor (person)
+- Scoggin — cosponsor (person)
+- Stamps — cosponsor (person)
+- Williamson — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-09T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Agriculture `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-24T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
+- **2023-02-07T06:00:00+00:00** Read the Third Time `reading-3`
+- **2023-02-08T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2023-02-08T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
+- **2023-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
+- **2023-02-14T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Agriculture `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-27T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
+- **2023-03-08T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2023-03-08T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
+- **2023-03-09T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
+- **2023-03-14T05:00:00+00:00** Concurred in Amend From Senate
+- **2023-03-15T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
+- **2023-03-15T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
+- **2023-03-21T05:00:00+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/b70c7973-242a-48e8-a1d0-2df7ffdb3cca`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).
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