---
type: "Bill"
title: "County sheriffs; revise daily amount that may be expended to feed county prisoners."
description: "County sheriffs; revise daily amount that may be expended to feed county prisoners."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 874"
citation: "Mississippi HB 874 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["County Affairs"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Baker"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 13
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-01-21T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-03-21T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9bdcbfe5-0838-415e-9c93-47f335fa1ad5"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2019/pdf/House_authors/Baker.xml"
source_hash: "131b5e6e8bb89e100f4c128fd8b568337de40edd7fbb7f51b90a76d45b236b09"
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 874 (2019) — County sheriffs; revise daily amount that may be expended to feed county prisoners.

## 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/0800-0899/HB0874IN.htm)
2. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 874** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB0874.pdf)
3. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/HB/0800-0899/HB0874PS.htm)
4. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/pdf/sam/HB0874_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
5. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/HB/0800-0899/HB0874SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage as Amended — **51–0** (pass) · upper
- Concurrence in Amendment From Senate — **115–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **118–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Baker — primary (person)
- Sykes — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-21T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To County Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-29T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-01-30T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2019-01-31T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2019-02-26T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To County Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-05T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2019-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2019-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2019-03-14T05:00:00+00:00** Concurred in Amend From Senate
- **2019-03-19T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2019-03-19T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2019-03-21T05:00:00+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/9bdcbfe5-0838-415e-9c93-47f335fa1ad5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).