---
type: "Bill"
title: "Appropriation; Transportation, Department of."
description: "Appropriation; Transportation, Department of."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1597"
citation: "Mississippi HB 1597 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Read"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 24
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2018-02-12T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2018-04-11T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c6b126a9-886c-4090-91ae-a0e4617e0d10"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2018/pdf//history/HB/HB1597.xml"
source_hash: "b50bc9184b3f5fba1be87d60aae5639a4504b394d469427fef26128a436d88cf"
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 1597 (2018) — 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/2018/html/HB/1500-1599/HB1597IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2018/html/HB/1500-1599/HB1597PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2018/html/HB/1500-1599/HB1597SG.htm)

## Votes

- Adopt Conference Report — **52–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passage as Amended — **50–0** (pass) · legislature
- Adopt Conference Report — **118–1** (pass) · legislature
- Passage as Amended — **118–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Read — primary (person)
- Arnold — cosponsor (person)
- Baker — cosponsor (person)
- Baria — cosponsor (person)
- Barton — cosponsor (person)
- Bennett — cosponsor (person)
- Bounds — cosponsor (person)
- Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Busby — cosponsor (person)
- Clarke — cosponsor (person)
- Currie — cosponsor (person)
- DeLano — cosponsor (person)
- Gipson — cosponsor (person)
- Huddleston_(30th) — cosponsor (person)
- Massengill — cosponsor (person)
- Myers — cosponsor (person)
- Staples — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas — cosponsor (person)
- Turner — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2018-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2018-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2018-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2018-03-08T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2018-03-08T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2018-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2018-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2018-03-19T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Read,Busby,Massengill
- **2018-03-21T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Clarke,Simmons (13th),Branning
- **2018-03-24T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2018-03-24T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2018-03-25T05:00:00+00:00** Recommitted For Further Conf
- **2018-03-25T05:00:00+00:00** Recommitted For Further Conf
- **2018-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2018-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2018-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2018-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2018-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2018-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2018-04-11T05:00:00+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/c6b126a9-886c-4090-91ae-a0e4617e0d10`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).