---
type: "Bill"
title: "Appropriation; Tombigbee River Valley Water Management District."
description: "Appropriation; Tombigbee River Valley Water Management District."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1663"
citation: "Mississippi HB 1663 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Read"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-18T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-03-22T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1c543c03-04de-4a6d-9bfb-fd509c9401d4"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2019/pdf/House_authors/Arnold.xml"
source_hash: "437ec5079bbc5d303fe447438ee586b2b6f4122ee29ddcff530d9f0d839ba8e5"
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 1663 (2019) — Appropriation; Tombigbee River Valley Water Management District.

## 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/HB1663IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/HB/1600-1699/HB1663PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/HB/1600-1699/HB1663SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **51–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **112–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Read — primary (person)
- Arnold — cosponsor (person)
- Barton — cosponsor (person)
- Bennett — cosponsor (person)
- Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Cockerham — cosponsor (person)
- Holland — cosponsor (person)
- Huddleston — cosponsor (person)
- Ladner — cosponsor (person)
- Myers — cosponsor (person)
- Staples — cosponsor (person)
- Sullivan — 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 `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **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 `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-14T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2019-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2019-03-20T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2019-03-20T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2019-03-22T05:00:00+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/1c543c03-04de-4a6d-9bfb-fd509c9401d4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).