---
type: "Bill"
title: "School bus drivers; increase maximum speed limit on interstate highways."
description: "School bus drivers; increase maximum speed limit on interstate highways."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 1176"
citation: "Mississippi HB 1176 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Transportation", "Education", "Highways and Transportation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Denton"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-17T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2020-06-22T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4f1c6701-fe04-4577-9bfb-609cd2e8be5f"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2020/pdf/House_authors/Brown_(70th).xml"
source_hash: "ec9ba35598bd77849f3348060d530f9c50224cde15f16bbe71e883897e2b60b1"
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 1176 (2020) — School bus drivers; increase maximum speed limit on interstate highways.

## 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/2020/html/HB/1100-1199/HB1176IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/HB/1100-1199/HB1176PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/HB/1100-1199/HB1176SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **51–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **115–4** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Denton — primary (person)
- Brown (70th) — cosponsor (person)
- Faulkner — cosponsor (person)
- Ford (54th) — cosponsor (person)
- Harness — cosponsor (person)
- Taylor — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Transportation;Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-26T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: TR To ED
- **2020-03-03T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: ED To TR
- **2020-03-03T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2020-05-12T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Highways and Transportation;Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-27T05:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: HI To ED
- **2020-05-28T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-06-10T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2020-06-11T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2020-06-15T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2020-06-16T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2020-06-22T05:00:00+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/4f1c6701-fe04-4577-9bfb-609cd2e8be5f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).