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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Income tax and ad valorem tax; create incentives for developers to improve tax forfeited, blighted properties in MS."
+description: "Income tax and ad valorem tax; create incentives for developers to improve tax forfeited, blighted properties in MS."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
+legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 1201"
+citation: "Mississippi HB 1201 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Finance", "Ways and Means"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Yates"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2025-01-20T06:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2025-04-17T05:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fbcd9b0d-ae9c-41d7-b053-0fd7aaac27e2"
+source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2025/pdf/House_authors/Blackmon.xml"
+source_hash: "9a6abd1c6b3ac44be8e7dd0c58c3f233f2cf42be0f86b2a173e2d55766dbe12a"
+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 1201 (2025) — Income tax and ad valorem tax; create incentives for developers to improve tax forfeited, blighted properties in MS.
+
+## 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/2025/html/HB/1200-1299/HB1201IN.htm)
+2. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 1201** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB1201.pdf)
+3. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/1200-1299/HB1201PS.htm)
+4. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/sam/HB1201_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
+5. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/1200-1299/HB1201SG.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage as Amended — **51–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passage — **120–0** (pass) · lower
+- Adopt Conference Report — **116–0** (pass) · lower
+- Adopt Conference Report — **49–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Yates — primary (person)
+- Blackmon — cosponsor (person)
+- Butler-Washington — cosponsor (person)
+- Crudup — cosponsor (person)
+- Ford (73rd) — cosponsor (person)
+- Foster — cosponsor (person)
+- Mansell — cosponsor (person)
+- McMillan — cosponsor (person)
+- Nelson — cosponsor (person)
+- Newman — cosponsor (person)
+- Powell — cosponsor (person)
+- Shanks — cosponsor (person)
+- Varner — cosponsor (person)
+- Wallace — cosponsor (person)
+- Yancey — cosponsor (person)
+- Zuber — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-20T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-28T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2025-01-29T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
+- **2025-01-30T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
+- **2025-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
+- **2025-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
+- **2025-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
+- **2025-03-20T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
+- **2025-03-25T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Lamar,Steverson,Barnett
+- **2025-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Harkins,Johnson,Horhn
+- **2025-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
+- **2025-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
+- **2025-03-31T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
+- **2025-03-31T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
+- **2025-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
+- **2025-04-03T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
+- **2025-04-17T05:00:00+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/fbcd9b0d-ae9c-41d7-b053-0fd7aaac27e2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).
+