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legislation/us/states/ms/2025/hb-1387.md

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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Kinship payments for foster children; revise who may be paid."
+description: "Kinship payments for foster children; revise who may be paid."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
+legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 1387"
+citation: "Mississippi HB 1387 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Judiciary", "Division A", "Youth and Family Affairs"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Cockerham"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 11
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-01-20T06:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2025-03-12T05:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/851c5313-9412-4715-841a-49b8992a3950"
+source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2025/pdf/House_authors/Anthony.xml"
+source_hash: "d41fb2be6d38473015248994dc8f69d2edfe55699ada8b5cd851a58727c66d7d"
+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 1387 (2025) — Kinship payments for foster children; revise who may be paid.
+
+## 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/HB1387IN.htm)
+2. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/1300-1399/HB1387PS.htm)
+3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/1300-1399/HB1387SG.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **50–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passage — **120–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Cockerham — primary (person)
+- Anthony — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-20T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Youth and Family Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-28T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-05T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
+- **2025-02-06T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
+- **2025-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary, Division A `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2025-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
+- **2025-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
+- **2025-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
+- **2025-03-10T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
+- **2025-03-12T05:00:00+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/851c5313-9412-4715-841a-49b8992a3950`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).
+