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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Municipal water, wastewater and sewer services; require equity based billing based on use of."
+description: "Municipal water, wastewater and sewer services; require equity based billing based on use of."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
+legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 698"
+citation: "Mississippi HB 698 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Energy", "Public Utilities"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Yates"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 27
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2023-01-16T06:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2023-04-14T05:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3b6fe4e0-4f99-4a81-9bc4-f1d86285e7f2"
+source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2023/pdf/House_authors/Yates.xml"
+source_hash: "b19eebb8277f9fe01df4e21ad604b70ea97343378cb4406a6344ed76f79d666d"
+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 698 (2023) — Municipal water, wastewater and sewer services; require equity based billing based on use 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/0600-0699/HB0698IN.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/HB0698_S_Amend_01_to_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
+3. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 698** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB0698.pdf)
+4. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/HB/0600-0699/HB0698PS.htm)
+5. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/pdf/sam/HB0698_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
+6. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/HB/0600-0699/HB0698SG.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Adopt Conference Report — **109–9** (pass) · lower
+- Adopt Conference Report — **43–9** (pass) · upper
+- Adopt Conference Report — **42–10** (pass) · upper
+- Passage as Amended — **37–12** (pass) · upper
+- Adopt Conference Report — **91–20** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **83–26** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Yates — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Public Utilities `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-26T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2023-02-07T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
+- **2023-02-08T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
+- **2023-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Energy `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`
+- **2023-03-10T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
+- **2023-03-14T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
+- **2023-03-21T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Bounds,Anderson (122nd),Yates
+- **2023-03-21T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Carter,Michel,Parks
+- **2023-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
+- **2023-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
+- **2023-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
+- **2023-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
+- **2023-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Reconsidered
+- **2023-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Recommitted For Further Conf
+- **2023-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Reconsidered
+- **2023-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Recommitted For Further Conf
+- **2023-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
+- **2023-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
+- **2023-03-29T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
+- **2023-03-29T05:00:00+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
+- **2023-04-14T05:00:00+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/3b6fe4e0-4f99-4a81-9bc4-f1d86285e7f2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).
+