---
type: "Bill"
title: "Commercial Driver's License Act; exclude certain equipment operated by Mississippi Military Department from definition of \"commercial motor vehicle.\""
description: "Commercial Driver's License Act; exclude certain equipment operated by Mississippi Military Department from definition of \"commercial motor vehicle.\""
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 751"
citation: "Mississippi HB 751 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Military Affairs", "Veterans and Military Affairs"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rogers"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-17T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-03-15T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/71cc5e2e-f101-4175-bb3e-089e454b834b"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2019/pdf/House_authors/Barnett.xml"
source_hash: "f182b97c1e94f67b6e28f470f2375764defa534b7a4ea334b2a103df9ae90a79"
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 751 (2019) — Commercial Driver's License Act; exclude certain equipment operated by Mississippi Military Department from definition of "commercial motor vehicle."

## 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/0700-0799/HB0751IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/HB/0700-0799/HB0751PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/HB/0700-0799/HB0751SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **52–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **118–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Rogers — primary (person)
- Barnett — cosponsor (person)
- Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
- Henley — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson_(94th) — cosponsor (person)
- Karriem — cosponsor (person)
- Scoggin — cosponsor (person)
- Shanks — cosponsor (person)
- Staples — cosponsor (person)
- Sykes — cosponsor (person)
- Weathersby — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-17T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Military Affairs `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** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2019-02-25T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Veterans and Military Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2019-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2019-03-08T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2019-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2019-03-15T05:00:00+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/71cc5e2e-f101-4175-bb3e-089e454b834b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).