---
type: "Bill"
title: "Appropriation; Foresters, Board of Registration for."
description: "Appropriation; Foresters, Board of Registration for."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1603"
citation: "Mississippi HB 1603 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Read"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-12T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2018-03-21T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5d747b8e-d491-4899-8444-4f1bb2b88661"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2018/pdf//history/HB/HB1603.xml"
source_hash: "2ebcd59ea9b95b12ca36df75afb8f9588b38a236ca5fe1364fc103e60af89b59"
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 1603 (2018) — Appropriation; Foresters, Board of Registration for.

## 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/1600-1699/HB1603IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2018/html/HB/1600-1699/HB1603PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2018/html/HB/1600-1699/HB1603SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **116–1** (pass) · legislature
- Passage — **52–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Read — primary (person)
- Barton — cosponsor (person)
- Bennett — cosponsor (person)
- Bounds — cosponsor (person)
- Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Busby — cosponsor (person)
- DeLano — cosponsor (person)
- Eure — cosponsor (person)
- Huddleston_(15th) — cosponsor (person)
- Huddleston_(30th) — cosponsor (person)
- Ladner — cosponsor (person)
- Massengill — cosponsor (person)
- Staples — cosponsor (person)
- Sullivan — 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** Passed `passage`
- **2018-02-14T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2018-02-15T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2018-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2018-03-14T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2018-03-15T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2018-03-15T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2018-03-21T05:00:00+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/5d747b8e-d491-4899-8444-4f1bb2b88661`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).