---
type: "Bill"
title: "Mississippi Broadband Enabling Act; create."
description: "Mississippi Broadband Enabling Act; create."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 366"
citation: "Mississippi HB 366 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Utilities", "Energy"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gunn"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-14T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-01-30T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/54bfe3c6-5c64-41e3-b320-ccfb0bddd811"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2019/pdf/House_authors/Anthony.xml"
source_hash: "6ec6c4d12cebce0aae8704543a5efb285620b0e746336db6def285dfbe6ac0ae"
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 366 (2019) — Mississippi Broadband Enabling Act; create.

## 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/0300-0399/HB0366IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/pdf/ham/HB0366_H_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **Amendment No 2 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/pdf/ham/HB0366_H_Amend_02.htm)
4. **Amendment No 3 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/pdf/ham/HB0366_H_Amend_03.pdf)
5. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/HB/0300-0399/HB0366PS.htm)
6. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/HB/0300-0399/HB0366SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **52–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **115–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gunn — primary (person)
- Anthony — cosponsor (person)
- Arnold — cosponsor (person)
- Bain — cosponsor (person)
- Baker — cosponsor (person)
- Barnett — cosponsor (person)
- Beckett — cosponsor (person)
- Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Burnett — cosponsor (person)
- Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
- Chism — cosponsor (person)
- Denton — cosponsor (person)
- Dixon — cosponsor (person)
- Gibbs_(72nd) — cosponsor (person)
- Holland — cosponsor (person)
- Holloway — cosponsor (person)
- Hood — cosponsor (person)
- Huddleston — cosponsor (person)
- Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Karriem — cosponsor (person)
- Kinkade — cosponsor (person)
- Ladner — cosponsor (person)
- Mangold — cosponsor (person)
- Mettetal — cosponsor (person)
- Mickens — cosponsor (person)
- Miles — cosponsor (person)
- Oliver — cosponsor (person)
- Paden — cosponsor (person)
- Powell — cosponsor (person)
- Reynolds — cosponsor (person)
- Rogers_(14th) — cosponsor (person)
- Rushing — cosponsor (person)
- Sanford — cosponsor (person)
- Shanks — cosponsor (person)
- Shirley — cosponsor (person)
- Steverson — cosponsor (person)
- Sykes — cosponsor (person)
- Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Tullos — cosponsor (person)
- Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Wallace — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-14T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Public Utilities `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-14T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-01-15T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2019-01-15T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2019-01-15T06:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered (Beckett, Steverson)
- **2019-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Tabled
- **2019-01-17T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2019-01-21T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Energy `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-22T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-01-23T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2019-01-24T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2019-01-24T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2019-01-24T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2019-01-30T06:00:00+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/54bfe3c6-5c64-41e3-b320-ccfb0bddd811`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).