---
type: "Bill"
title: "Budget process; provide for certain transfers into CEF and delete transfer of EEF funds into rainy day fund."
description: "Budget process; provide for certain transfers into CEF and delete transfer of EEF funds into rainy day fund."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 127"
citation: "Mississippi HB 127 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Read"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2020-01-24T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2020-07-08T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a6b0936f-237e-41d5-9b4e-d4a3867b3fdd"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2020/pdf/House_authors/Foster.xml"
source_hash: "19bc99b43e09c924e340255c692230ce9ec5cbb59e2721b01376ecc00c42bcb4"
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 127 (2020) — Budget process; provide for certain transfers into CEF and delete transfer of EEF funds into rainy day fund.

## 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/0100-0199/HB0127IN.htm)
2. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 127** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB0127.pdf)
3. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/HB/0100-0199/HB0127PS.htm)
4. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/pdf/sam/HB0127_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
5. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/HB/0100-0199/HB0127SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **118–0** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **112–0** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **50–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **51–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-24T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-20T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-05T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2020-05-11T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-04T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2020-06-11T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2020-06-11T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2020-06-12T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2020-06-17T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2020-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Read,Cockerham,White
- **2020-06-19T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Hopson,Wiggins,Blackwell
- **2020-06-29T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2020-06-29T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2020-06-30T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2020-06-30T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2020-07-02T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2020-07-02T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2020-07-08T05:00:00+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/a6b0936f-237e-41d5-9b4e-d4a3867b3fdd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).