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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Grooming of a child; establish as a criminal offense."
+description: "Grooming of a child; establish as a criminal offense."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
+legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 1308"
+citation: "Mississippi HB 1308 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Judiciary B", "Judiciary", "Division B"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Owen"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 23
+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/9b4bdba9-1916-4cf1-a80f-e2a0c0da2aac"
+source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2025/pdf/House_authors/Hall.xml"
+source_hash: "1c1d1a7a313239caf3989599f326af61ab9af8e726844b8eae4d0c9297baad19"
+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 1308 (2025) — Grooming of a child; establish as a criminal offense.
+
+## 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/1300-1399/HB1308IN.htm)
+2. **Amendment No 1 to Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/sam/HB1308_S_Amend_01_to_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
+3. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 1308** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB1308.pdf)
+4. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/1300-1399/HB1308PS.htm)
+5. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/sam/HB1308_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
+6. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/1300-1399/HB1308CS.htm)
+7. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/1300-1399/HB1308SG.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage as Amended — **51–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passage — **110–1** (pass) · lower
+- Adopt Conference Report — **104–3** (pass) · lower
+- Adopt Conference Report — **49–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Owen — primary (person)
+- Hall — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-20T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary B `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-04T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Read the Third Time `reading-3`
+- **2025-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
+- **2025-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
+- **2025-02-14T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
+- **2025-02-14T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary, Division B `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`
+- **2025-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
+- **2025-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
+- **2025-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Horan,Owen,Hall
+- **2025-03-20T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Fillingane,DeBar,McCaughn
+- **2025-03-31T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
+- **2025-03-31T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
+- **2025-04-01T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
+- **2025-04-01T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
+- **2025-04-01T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered (Horan, Owen)
+- **2025-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Tabled
+- **2025-04-07T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
+- **2025-04-07T05:00:00+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/9b4bdba9-1916-4cf1-a80f-e2a0c0da2aac`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).
+