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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Publishers' fees; revise those charged for publication of legal documents."
+description: "Publishers' fees; revise those charged for publication of legal documents."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
+legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 598"
+citation: "Mississippi HB 598 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Accountability", "Efficiency", "Transparency", "Finance"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Barnett"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2025-01-15T06:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2025-04-01T05:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/23196e3c-75e6-42e7-a813-a10ad67b1fa9"
+source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2025/pdf/House_authors/Barnett.xml"
+source_hash: "64a862d9c3baa9aae519669fc3de1df5dcc35bf33565d41b79f222a781377c3a"
+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 598 (2025) — Publishers' fees; revise those charged for publication of legal documents.
+
+## 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/0500-0599/HB0598IN.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/HB0598_S_Amend_01_to_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
+3. **Amendment No 2 to Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/sam/HB0598_S_Amend_02_to_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
+4. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 598** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB0598.pdf)
+5. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/0500-0599/HB0598PS.htm)
+6. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/sam/HB0598_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
+7. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/0500-0599/HB0598SG.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **117–1** (pass) · lower
+- Concurrence in Amendment From Senate — **119–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passage as Amended — **51–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passage as Amended — **48–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Barnett — primary (person)
+- Karriem — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-15T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-30T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-06T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
+- **2025-02-07T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
+- **2025-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-27T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
+- **2025-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
+- **2025-03-10T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered
+- **2025-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Reconsidered
+- **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
+- **2025-03-19T05:00:00+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
+- **2025-04-01T05:00:00+00:00** Law W/out Governor's Signature `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/23196e3c-75e6-42e7-a813-a10ad67b1fa9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).
+