---
type: "Bill"
title: "Motor vehicles; delete repealer on prohibition against texting and social networking while driving."
description: "Motor vehicles; delete repealer on prohibition against texting and social networking while driving."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 900"
citation: "Mississippi HB 900 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Transportation", "Judiciary", "Division A"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["White"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-11T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2018-03-16T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1eedb6f3-c9ed-4536-b640-8c9dce53992a"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2018/pdf//history/HB/HB0900.xml"
source_hash: "2bc09570941b0ac4f95a1d527a4d3977df8fbfa1ad3d4cd749d956d0bdd7b127"
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 900 (2018) — Motor vehicles; delete repealer on prohibition against texting and social networking while driving.

## 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/0900-0999/HB0900IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2018/html/HB/0900-0999/HB0900PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2018/html/HB/0900-0999/HB0900SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **40–9** (pass) · legislature
- Passage — **96–16** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- White — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-11T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-25T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-07T06:00:00+00:00** Tabled Subject To Call
- **2018-02-08T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2018-02-09T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2018-02-09T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary, Division A `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-27T06:00:00+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
- **2018-03-16T05:00:00+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/1eedb6f3-c9ed-4536-b640-8c9dce53992a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).