---
type: "Bill"
title: "MS Fair Commission; authorize to purchase certain property located in City of Jackson and contiguous to the State Fairgrounds."
description: "MS Fair Commission; authorize to purchase certain property located in City of Jackson and contiguous to the State Fairgrounds."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 766"
citation: "Mississippi HB 766 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Property"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Weathersby"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-11T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2018-03-19T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/132ae9cc-1ffd-40fc-8eb1-01842b703763"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2018/pdf//history/HB/HB0766.xml"
source_hash: "e89178b9f1fe2fb24131b71217efd8b61106bb69e7080bb800fe667951fc07ab"
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 766 (2018) — MS Fair Commission; authorize to purchase certain property located in City of Jackson and contiguous to the State Fairgrounds.

## 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/0700-0799/HB0766IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2018/html/HB/0700-0799/HB0766PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2018/html/HB/0700-0799/HB0766SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **111–3** (pass) · legislature
- Passage — **49–1** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Weathersby — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-11T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Public Property `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-31T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2018-01-31T06:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered (Banks, Weathersby, Hale)
- **2018-02-01T06:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Tabled
- **2018-02-02T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2018-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Public Property `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-26T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2018-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2018-03-08T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2018-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2018-03-12T05:00:00+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/132ae9cc-1ffd-40fc-8eb1-01842b703763`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).