---
type: "Bill"
title: "Appropriation; Attorney General."
description: "Appropriation; Attorney General."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "20171E"
identifier: "HB 1"
citation: "Mississippi HB 1 (20171E)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations", "Appropriations", "Appropriations", "Appropriations", "Appropriations", "Appropriations", "Appropriations", "Appropriations", "Appropriations", "Appropriations", "Appropriations", "Appropriations", "Appropriations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Read"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-06-05T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2017-06-07T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d99a4b74-c2df-496d-8e14-ba318a5a1bee"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/20171E/pdf//history/HB/HB0001.xml"
source_hash: "5f162a145fffbf55294f31d1bb570668123d1df0bb9265c6410d5ac6f922ded7"
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 1 (20171E) — Appropriation; Attorney General.

## 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/20171E/html/HB/0001-0099/HB0001IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/20171E/html/HB/0001-0099/HB0001PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/20171E/html/HB/0001-0099/HB0001SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **103–4** (pass) · legislature
- Passage — **44–5** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Read — primary (person)
- Baker — cosponsor (person)
- Banks — cosponsor (person)
- Barker — cosponsor (person)
- Beckett — cosponsor (person)
- Bennett — cosponsor (person)
- Clarke — cosponsor (person)
- Cockerham — cosponsor (person)
- Gipson — cosponsor (person)
- Snowden — cosponsor (person)
- Watson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-06-05T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-05T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2017-06-05T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2017-06-05T05:00:00+00:00** Immediate Release
- **2017-06-05T05:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2017-06-05T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-05T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2017-06-05T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2017-06-05T05:00:00+00:00** Immediate Release
- **2017-06-05T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2017-06-05T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2017-06-06T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2017-06-07T05:00:00+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/d99a4b74-c2df-496d-8e14-ba318a5a1bee`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).