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+type: "Bill"
+title: "MS Save Our Service Member Task Force; create to study and make recommendations concerning mental health needs of military members."
+description: "MS Save Our Service Member Task Force; create to study and make recommendations concerning mental health needs of military members."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
+legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 1268"
+citation: "Mississippi HB 1268 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Military Affairs", "Veterans and Military Affairs"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Hall"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2025-01-20T06:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2025-03-28T05:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cb6f44c4-a90b-4e4c-b5af-7f30a87685bf"
+source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2025/pdf/House_authors/Bell_(21st).xml"
+source_hash: "3ce0d0b6d24ddc339c58c8f4d2b7547c920677f154e52aff44371ad857f2b576"
+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 1268 (2025) — MS Save Our Service Member Task Force; create to study and make recommendations concerning mental health needs of military members.
+
+## 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/HB1268IN.htm)
+2. **Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/sam/HB1268_S_Amend_01.pdf)
+3. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 1268** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB1268.pdf)
+4. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/1200-1299/HB1268PS.htm)
+5. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/1200-1299/HB1268SG.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Concurrence in Amendment From Senate — **120–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passage as Amended — **51–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passage — **117–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **48–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Hall — primary (person)
+- Bell (21st) — cosponsor (person)
+- Blackwell — cosponsor (person)
+- Burch — cosponsor (person)
+- Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
+- Felsher — cosponsor (person)
+- Grady — cosponsor (person)
+- Hawkins — cosponsor (person)
+- Hulum — cosponsor (person)
+- Karriem — cosponsor (person)
+- Keen — cosponsor (person)
+- Lott — cosponsor (person)
+- McMillan — cosponsor (person)
+- Pigott — cosponsor (person)
+- Varner — cosponsor (person)
+- Yates — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-20T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Military Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-29T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
+- **2025-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
+- **2025-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Veterans and Military Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2025-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
+- **2025-03-10T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered
+- **2025-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Reconsidered
+- **2025-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
+- **2025-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
+- **2025-03-19T05:00:00+00:00** Concurred in Amend From Senate
+- **2025-03-21T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
+- **2025-03-21T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
+- **2025-03-28T05:00:00+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/cb6f44c4-a90b-4e4c-b5af-7f30a87685bf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).
+