---
type: "Bill"
title: "Alcoholic beverages; authorize issuance of distillery retailer's permit and revise certain other permits."
description: "Alcoholic beverages; authorize issuance of distillery retailer's permit and revise certain other permits."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 995"
citation: "Mississippi HB 995 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Ways and Means", "Tourism"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Smith"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 19
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2018-01-12T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2018-04-13T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d1ca0307-62c7-43e9-848b-248772215ab0"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2018/pdf//history/HB/HB0995.xml"
source_hash: "24db1fff89565580054574effebca596c39a18174ecdf1b78ca4fa2a92094c50"
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 995 (2018) — Alcoholic beverages; authorize issuance of distillery retailer's permit and revise certain other permits.

## 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/HB0995IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2018/html/HB/0900-0999/HB0995PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2018/html/HB/0900-0999/HB0995SG.htm)

## Votes

- Adopt Conference Report — **43–9** (pass) · legislature
- Passage — **87–24** (pass) · legislature
- Adopt Conference Report — **93–23** (pass) · legislature
- Passage as Amended — **39–11** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Smith — primary (person)
- Sykes — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-12T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-25T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-31T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2018-02-01T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2018-02-09T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Tourism `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-26T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2018-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2018-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2018-03-08T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2018-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2018-03-21T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Smith,Lamar,Zuber
- **2018-03-24T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Chassaniol,Massey,Hopson
- **2018-03-25T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2018-03-25T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2018-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2018-03-27T05:00:00+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
- **2018-04-13T05:00:00+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/d1ca0307-62c7-43e9-848b-248772215ab0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).