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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Judicial redistricting; revise for circuit courts."
+description: "Judicial redistricting; revise for circuit courts."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
+legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 1544"
+citation: "Mississippi HB 1544 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Judiciary B", "Judiciary", "Division A"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Horan"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 25
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2025-01-20T06:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2025-04-23T05:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/797e54ba-843d-4d0b-9952-9229a351baa7"
+source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2025/pdf/House_authors/Horan.xml"
+source_hash: "c8b15c5839c1647646b6609bb21c01cbe89e9dc4f077bfa16edfb4c6350d2d41"
+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 1544 (2025) — Judicial redistricting; revise for circuit courts.
+
+## 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/1500-1599/HB1544IN.htm)
+2. **Amendment No 1 (Cmte Sub) (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/ham/HB1544_H_(Cmte_Sub)_Amend_01.htm)
+3. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 1544** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB1544.pdf)
+4. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/1500-1599/HB1544PS.htm)
+5. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/sam/HB1544_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
+6. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/1500-1599/HB1544CS.htm)
+7. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/1500-1599/HB1544SG.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Adopt Conference Report — **33–8** (pass) · upper
+- Passage as Amended — **83–35** (pass) · lower
+- Passage as Amended — **50–0** (pass) · upper
+- Adopt Conference Report — **78–36** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Horan — primary (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`
+- **2025-02-06T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
+- **2025-02-06T06:00:00+00:00** Tabled Failed
+- **2025-02-06T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-02-06T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
+- **2025-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
+- **2025-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary, Division A `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-27T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
+- **2025-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
+- **2025-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Immediate Release
+- **2025-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
+- **2025-03-10T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
+- **2025-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Horan,Owen,Hood
+- **2025-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Wiggins,McCaughn,DeBar
+- **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** Motion to Reconsider Entered (Horan, Owen)
+- **2025-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
+- **2025-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Tabled
+- **2025-04-08T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
+- **2025-04-08T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
+- **2025-04-23T05:00:00+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/797e54ba-843d-4d0b-9952-9229a351baa7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).
+