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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Department of Agriculture; revise authority to spend certain funds."
+description: "Department of Agriculture; revise authority to spend certain funds."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
+legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 1357"
+citation: "Mississippi HB 1357 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Accountability", "Efficiency", "Transparency", "Appropriations", "State Affairs"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Read"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 27
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2024-02-19T06:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2024-05-13T05:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6ee4edbb-f512-48b1-a3eb-6a443957b47d"
+source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2024/pdf/House_authors/McGee.xml"
+source_hash: "729ff80418f1119a721039c56a7fd33f9de4aa1721a9e1fe168f501d78aa75e6"
+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 1357 (2024) — Department of Agriculture; revise authority to spend certain funds.
+
+## 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/2024/html/HB/1300-1399/HB1357IN.htm)
+2. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 1357** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB1357.pdf)
+3. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/HB/1300-1399/HB1357PS.htm)
+4. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/pdf/sam/HB1357_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
+5. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/HB/1300-1399/HB1357CS.htm)
+6. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/HB/1300-1399/HB1357SG.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage as Amended — **50–2** (pass) · upper
+- Adopt Conference Report — **114–0** (pass) · lower
+- Adopt Conference Report — **51–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passage — **110–7** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Read — primary (person)
+- McGee — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To State Affairs;Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-29T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPCS: SA To AC
+- **2024-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPCS: AC To SA
+- **2024-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
+- **2024-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
+- **2024-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
+- **2024-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Immediate Release
+- **2024-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
+- **2024-03-22T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
+- **2024-04-09T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2024-04-09T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
+- **2024-04-11T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
+- **2024-04-15T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
+- **2024-04-16T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Zuber,Hood,Ford (54th)
+- **2024-04-16T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Hopson,DeLano,Blackwell
+- **2024-04-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
+- **2024-04-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
+- **2024-04-28T05:00:00+00:00** Recommitted For Further Conf
+- **2024-04-29T05:00:00+00:00** Recommitted For Further Conf
+- **2024-04-29T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
+- **2024-04-29T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
+- **2024-04-30T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
+- **2024-05-01T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
+- **2024-05-06T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
+- **2024-05-06T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
+- **2024-05-13T05:00:00+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/6ee4edbb-f512-48b1-a3eb-6a443957b47d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).
+