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+type: "Bill"
+title: "CCID; authorize Supreme Court Justice to appoint full-time and part-time judges."
+description: "CCID; authorize Supreme Court Justice to appoint full-time and part-time judges."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
+legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 1459"
+citation: "Mississippi HB 1459 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Appropriations", "Judiciary", "Division A", "State Affairs"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Yates"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2025-01-20T06:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2025-04-02T05:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9877c989-2ae8-468e-8da8-12996a0da116"
+source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2025/pdf/House_authors/Yates.xml"
+source_hash: "0857e11f517d96c658fb1dc8ab9d6d2ee16327e1ee75893305ec81bfc0ebecb6"
+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 1459 (2025) — CCID; authorize Supreme Court Justice to appoint full-time and part-time judges.
+
+## 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/1400-1499/HB1459IN.htm)
+2. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 1459** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB1459.pdf)
+3. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/1400-1499/HB1459PS.htm)
+4. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/sam/HB1459_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
+5. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/1400-1499/HB1459SG.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage as Amended — **38–12** (pass) · upper
+- Passage — **94–13** (pass) · lower
+- Concurrence in Amendment From Senate — **97–20** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Yates — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-20T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To State Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-04T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
+- **2025-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
+- **2025-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary, Division A;Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-27T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPAA: JA To AP
+- **2025-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
+- **2025-03-10T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-03-10T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
+- **2025-03-10T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered
+- **2025-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Tabled
+- **2025-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
+- **2025-03-21T05:00:00+00:00** Concurred in Amend From Senate
+- **2025-03-25T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
+- **2025-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
+- **2025-04-02T05:00:00+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/9877c989-2ae8-468e-8da8-12996a0da116`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).
+