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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Law enforcement and certain first responders killed in line of duty; authorize payment to family up to 30 days."
+description: "Law enforcement and certain first responders killed in line of duty; authorize payment to family up to 30 days."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
+legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 1697"
+citation: "Mississippi HB 1697 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Accountability", "Efficiency", "Transparency", "Appropriations A", "State Affairs"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Grady"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2024-02-19T06:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2024-04-20T05:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f6cd78af-957b-4085-be41-1e81e6a3920d"
+source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2024/pdf/House_authors/Anthony.xml"
+source_hash: "cf347734eaa7b14d6cd41031d30e25c75dbc021c7aed82d121ae2e3cda9ddae3"
+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 1697 (2024) — Law enforcement and certain first responders killed in line of duty; authorize payment to family up to 30 days.
+
+## 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/1600-1699/HB1697IN.htm)
+2. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 1697** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB1697.pdf)
+3. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/HB/1600-1699/HB1697PS.htm)
+4. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/pdf/sam/HB1697_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
+5. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/HB/1600-1699/HB1697CS.htm)
+6. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/HB/1600-1699/HB1697SG.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage as Amended — **51–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passage — **119–0** (pass) · lower
+- Concurrence in Amendment From Senate — **121–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Grady — primary (person)
+- Anthony — cosponsor (person)
+- Burch — cosponsor (person)
+- Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
+- Eure — cosponsor (person)
+- Faulkner — cosponsor (person)
+- Felsher — cosponsor (person)
+- Ford (73rd) — cosponsor (person)
+- Foster — cosponsor (person)
+- Hawkins — cosponsor (person)
+- Hulum — cosponsor (person)
+- Hurst — cosponsor (person)
+- Lott — cosponsor (person)
+- Mansell — cosponsor (person)
+- McKnight — cosponsor (person)
+- Mickens — cosponsor (person)
+- Nelson — cosponsor (person)
+- Zuber — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To State Affairs;Appropriations A `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-29T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPCS: SA To AP
+- **2024-03-05T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPCS: AP To SA
+- **2024-03-05T06:00:00+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`
+- **2024-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
+- **2024-03-22T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency `referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
+- **2024-04-05T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2024-04-05T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
+- **2024-04-08T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
+- **2024-04-10T05:00:00+00:00** Concurred in Amend From Senate
+- **2024-04-12T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
+- **2024-04-12T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
+- **2024-04-20T05:00:00+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/f6cd78af-957b-4085-be41-1e81e6a3920d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).
+