---
type: "Bill"
title: "Oil and gas severance taxes; extend repealers on lower rate for production from horizontally drilled wells."
description: "Oil and gas severance taxes; extend repealers on lower rate for production from horizontally drilled wells."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1350"
citation: "Mississippi HB 1350 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Energy", "Finance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cockerham"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-01-15T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2018-03-19T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1c42612d-7b5b-45e0-88eb-f45794617912"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2018/pdf//history/HB/HB1350.xml"
source_hash: "0df12be3da2a37af2e17ce9697e87722e5d89358daf554637f4935db2f2da301"
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 1350 (2018) — Oil and gas severance taxes; extend repealers on lower rate for production from horizontally drilled wells.

## 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/2018/html/HB/1300-1399/HB1350IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2018/html/HB/1300-1399/HB1350PS.htm)
3. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2018/html/HB/1300-1399/HB1350CS.htm)
4. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2018/html/HB/1300-1399/HB1350SG.htm)

## Votes

- Concurrence in Amendment From Senate — **117–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passage — **116–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passage as Amended — **50–1** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Cockerham — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-15T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Energy `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-29T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-01T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2018-02-01T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2018-02-05T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2018-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Energy;Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-21T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPAA: EN To FI
- **2018-02-27T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2018-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2018-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2018-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2018-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Concurred in Amend From Senate
- **2018-03-15T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2018-03-15T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2018-03-19T05:00:00+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/1c42612d-7b5b-45e0-88eb-f45794617912`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).