---
type: "Bill"
title: "Appropriation; Education, Department of."
description: "Appropriation; Education, Department of."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1643"
citation: "Mississippi HB 1643 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Read"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 26
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-02-18T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-04-16T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a85be645-0cff-449b-b5f8-63aa73f6935d"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2019/pdf/House_authors/Arnold.xml"
source_hash: "8fa05a9a8ae0f2cd301c7a19f77006c180291fd00a8fbfdd22564b4ad64d5c29"
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 1643 (2019) — Appropriation; Education, Department of.

## 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/1600-1699/HB1643IN.htm)
2. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 1643** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB1643.pdf)
3. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/HB/1600-1699/HB1643PS.htm)
4. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/pdf/sam/HB1643_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
5. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/HB/1600-1699/HB1643CS.htm)
6. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/HB/1600-1699/HB1643SG.htm)

## Votes

- Adopt Conference Report — **114–2** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **109–2** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **51–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **51–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Read — primary (person)
- Arnold — cosponsor (person)
- Banks — cosponsor (person)
- Barton — cosponsor (person)
- Beckett — cosponsor (person)
- Bennett — cosponsor (person)
- Bounds — cosponsor (person)
- Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Busby — cosponsor (person)
- Clarke — cosponsor (person)
- Cockerham — cosponsor (person)
- DeLano — cosponsor (person)
- Eure — cosponsor (person)
- Faulkner — cosponsor (person)
- Holland — cosponsor (person)
- Ladner — cosponsor (person)
- Massengill — cosponsor (person)
- Mettetal — cosponsor (person)
- Sullivan — cosponsor (person)
- Sykes — cosponsor (person)
- Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Watson — cosponsor (person)
- Willis — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2019-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2019-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered (Miles, Read, Huddleston)
- **2019-02-20T06:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Tabled
- **2019-02-20T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2019-02-20T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-14T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2019-03-14T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2019-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2019-03-19T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2019-03-21T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Read,Bennett,Eure
- **2019-03-22T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Clarke,Tollison,Burton
- **2019-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2019-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2019-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Recommitted For Further Conf
- **2019-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Recommitted For Further Conf
- **2019-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2019-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2019-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2019-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2019-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2019-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2019-04-16T05:00:00+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/a85be645-0cff-449b-b5f8-63aa73f6935d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).