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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Office of Workforce Development; revise funding mechanism for and revise powers and duties of."
+description: "Office of Workforce Development; revise funding mechanism for and revise powers and duties of."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
+legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 588"
+citation: "Mississippi HB 588 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Economic and Workforce Development", "Workforce Development"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Roberson"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2023-01-16T06:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2023-04-20T05:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5b6189db-6023-4b0b-a797-7e4136a6b5e0"
+source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2023/pdf/House_authors/Roberson.xml"
+source_hash: "c84fa5076c291b319cb16255a39d772e083a39932e9cfc45a55a24091f7a917d"
+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 588 (2023) — Office of Workforce Development; revise funding mechanism for and revise powers and duties of.
+
+## 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/0500-0599/HB0588IN.htm)
+2. **Amendment No 1 to Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/pdf/sam/HB0588_S_Amend_01_to_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
+3. **Amendment No 2 to Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/pdf/sam/HB0588_S_Amend_02_to_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
+4. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 588** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB0588.pdf)
+5. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/HB/0500-0599/HB0588PS.htm)
+6. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/pdf/sam/HB0588_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
+7. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/HB/0500-0599/HB0588SG.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **112–5** (pass) · lower
+- Adopt Conference Report — **52–0** (pass) · upper
+- Adopt Conference Report — **110–5** (pass) · lower
+- Passage as Amended — **52–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Roberson — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Workforce Development `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-24T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2023-02-01T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
+- **2023-02-02T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
+- **2023-02-14T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Economic and Workforce Development `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-23T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
+- **2023-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2023-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
+- **2023-03-10T06:00:00+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 Bell (21st),White,Ford (73rd)
+- **2023-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Parker,Younger,England
+- **2023-03-21T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Bell (21st),Felsher,Ford (73rd)
+- **2023-03-24T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
+- **2023-03-24T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
+- **2023-03-27T05:00:00+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
+- **2023-04-20T05:00:00+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/5b6189db-6023-4b0b-a797-7e4136a6b5e0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).
+