---
type: "Bill"
title: "Appropriation; Transportation, Department of."
description: "Appropriation; Transportation, Department of."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "20171E"
identifier: "HB 2"
citation: "Mississippi HB 2 (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/7e7e6704-9980-4487-aa59-a9214baf89b4"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/20171E/pdf//history/HB/HB0002.xml"
source_hash: "225754af3d9af361d24b2f0ad1d7bdc4ae0a034f388d8b6834c91bcc620e3a96"
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 2 (20171E) — Appropriation; Transportation, Department of.

## 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/HB0002IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/20171E/html/HB/0001-0099/HB0002PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/20171E/html/HB/0001-0099/HB0002SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **48–2** (pass) · legislature
- Passage — **113–1** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Read — primary (person)
- Arnold — cosponsor (person)
- Baker — cosponsor (person)
- Baria — cosponsor (person)
- Barker — cosponsor (person)
- Bennett — cosponsor (person)
- Bounds — cosponsor (person)
- Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Busby — cosponsor (person)
- Clarke — cosponsor (person)
- Currie — cosponsor (person)
- DeLano — cosponsor (person)
- Denny — cosponsor (person)
- Gipson — cosponsor (person)
- Huddleston_(30th) — cosponsor (person)
- Monsour — cosponsor (person)
- Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Myers — cosponsor (person)
- Staples — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas — cosponsor (person)
- Turner — 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/7e7e6704-9980-4487-aa59-a9214baf89b4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).