---
type: "Bill"
title: "Income tax; authorize a job tax credit for certain water transportation enterprises."
description: "Income tax; authorize a job tax credit for certain water transportation enterprises."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1065"
citation: "Mississippi HB 1065 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Ways and Means", "Finance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ford"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-21T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-03-28T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a9f8b25b-db77-407c-9388-3fb9a0676276"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2019/pdf/House_authors/Aguirre.xml"
source_hash: "bb1afaed9d4659588344f6d7d3037d815d6bb3e9303a6bb684901efdd66c104f"
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 1065 (2019) — Income tax; authorize a job tax credit for certain water transportation enterprises.

## 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/2019/html/HB/1000-1099/HB1065IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/HB/1000-1099/HB1065PS.htm)
3. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/HB/1000-1099/HB1065CS.htm)
4. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/HB/1000-1099/HB1065SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **115–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **52–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ford — primary (person)
- Aguirre — cosponsor (person)
- Anderson — cosponsor (person)
- Anthony — cosponsor (person)
- Arnold — cosponsor (person)
- Bailey — cosponsor (person)
- Bain — cosponsor (person)
- Banks — cosponsor (person)
- Baria — cosponsor (person)
- Barnett — cosponsor (person)
- Barton — cosponsor (person)
- Bell_(21st) — cosponsor (person)
- Bell_(65th) — cosponsor (person)
- Blackmon — cosponsor (person)
- Bounds — cosponsor (person)
- Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Burnett — cosponsor (person)
- Byrd — cosponsor (person)
- Calhoun — cosponsor (person)
- Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
- Chism — cosponsor (person)
- Clark — cosponsor (person)
- Clarke — cosponsor (person)
- Cockerham — cosponsor (person)
- Corley — cosponsor (person)
- Criswell — cosponsor (person)
- Currie — cosponsor (person)
- Denton — cosponsor (person)
- Dixon — cosponsor (person)
- Dortch — cosponsor (person)
- Evans_(45th) — cosponsor (person)
- Evans_(91st) — cosponsor (person)
- Faulkner — cosponsor (person)
- Gibbs_(36th) — cosponsor (person)
- Gibbs_(72nd) — cosponsor (person)
- Guice — cosponsor (person)
- Hale — cosponsor (person)
- Haney — cosponsor (person)
- Harness — cosponsor (person)
- Henley — cosponsor (person)
- Hines — cosponsor (person)
- Holloway — cosponsor (person)
- Hopkins — cosponsor (person)
- Horan — cosponsor (person)
- Hudson — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson_(94th) — cosponsor (person)
- Karriem — cosponsor (person)
- Kinkade — cosponsor (person)
- Ladner — cosponsor (person)
- Lamar — cosponsor (person)
- Mangold — cosponsor (person)
- Massengill — cosponsor (person)
- McLeod — cosponsor (person)
- McNeal — cosponsor (person)
- Mettetal — cosponsor (person)
- Mickens — cosponsor (person)
- Miles — cosponsor (person)
- Mims — cosponsor (person)
- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
- Oliver — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Pigott — cosponsor (person)
- Powell — cosponsor (person)
- Read — cosponsor (person)
- Roberson — cosponsor (person)
- Rogers_(14th) — cosponsor (person)
- Rogers_(61st) — cosponsor (person)
- Rosebud — cosponsor (person)
- Rushing — cosponsor (person)
- Sanford — cosponsor (person)
- Scoggin — cosponsor (person)
- Shanks — cosponsor (person)
- Snowden — cosponsor (person)
- Staples — cosponsor (person)
- Steverson — cosponsor (person)
- Sullivan — cosponsor (person)
- Sykes — cosponsor (person)
- Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Tullos — cosponsor (person)
- Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Wallace — cosponsor (person)
- Watson — cosponsor (person)
- Weathersby — cosponsor (person)
- White — cosponsor (person)
- Wilkes — cosponsor (person)
- Williams-Barnes — cosponsor (person)
- Willis — cosponsor (person)
- Young — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-21T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-05T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-06T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2019-02-06T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2019-02-08T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2019-02-20T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-19T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2019-03-20T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2019-03-21T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2019-03-21T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2019-03-28T05:00:00+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/a9f8b25b-db77-407c-9388-3fb9a0676276`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).