---
type: "Bill"
title: "Protective orders; prohibit unit prices within procurement contracts from being protected under."
description: "Protective orders; prohibit unit prices within procurement contracts from being protected under."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 158"
citation: "Mississippi HB 158 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Accountability", "Efficiency", "Transparency", "Judiciary", "Division A"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Turner"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-02T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2018-03-15T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/052d8090-0f30-49b9-83da-c177ba62836d"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2018/pdf//history/HB/HB0158.xml"
source_hash: "b0f40d3ec4379899e9f086c530165c23e42c548da9af24a8909cea670d11dfd4"
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 158 (2018) — Protective orders; prohibit unit prices within procurement contracts from being protected under.

## 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/0100-0199/HB0158IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2018/html/HB/0100-0199/HB0158PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2018/html/HB/0100-0199/HB0158SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **113–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passage — **50–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Turner — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-02T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-29T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-01T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2018-02-02T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2018-02-16T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency;Judiciary, Division A `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-22T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: AC To JA
- **2018-02-27T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2018-03-05T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2018-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2018-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2018-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2018-03-15T05:00:00+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/052d8090-0f30-49b9-83da-c177ba62836d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).