---
type: "Bill"
title: "Office of Medical Examiner; include within the Office of Forensics Laboratories."
description: "Office of Medical Examiner; include within the Office of Forensics Laboratories."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 913"
citation: "Mississippi HB 913 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Read"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-21T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-03-15T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bf2fa7fb-dfb2-4c02-b8de-4ae4e3dec0d8"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2019/pdf/House_authors/Read.xml"
source_hash: "29b000d559c6d37f5fcba022bab1620938954d477f3af1b12a406408f9ee407a"
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 913 (2019) — Office of Medical Examiner; include within the Office of Forensics Laboratories.

## 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/0900-0999/HB0913IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/HB/0900-0999/HB0913PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/HB/0900-0999/HB0913SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **116–1** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **52–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-21T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-31T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-07T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2019-02-08T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2019-02-26T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-05T06:00:00+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/bf2fa7fb-dfb2-4c02-b8de-4ae4e3dec0d8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).