---
type: "Bill"
title: "Economic Development Highway Act; revise definition of high economic benefit project."
description: "Economic Development Highway Act; revise definition of high economic benefit project."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 1383"
citation: "Mississippi HB 1383 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Transportation", "Appropriations", "Economic and Workforce Development"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McGee"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 23
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2020-02-17T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2020-07-07T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/55e7cbdc-863a-4eee-ba95-c60d6b6c18d1"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2020/pdf/House_authors/McGee.xml"
source_hash: "ec1a4291f8714cc37c03e8ae0aff231921b3bc2f6130af95812b7f296b0c21d7"
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 1383 (2020) — Economic Development Highway Act; revise definition of high economic benefit project.

## 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/1300-1399/HB1383IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 to Amendment No 1 (Adopted)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/pdf/sam/HB1383_S_Amend_01_to_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 1383** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB1383.pdf)
4. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/HB/1300-1399/HB1383PS.htm)
5. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/pdf/sam/HB1383_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
6. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/HB/1300-1399/HB1383CS.htm)
7. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/HB/1300-1399/HB1383SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage as Amended — **51–0** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **52–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **114–4** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **115–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- McGee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Transportation;Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-27T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPCS: TR To AP
- **2020-03-03T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPCS: AP To TR
- **2020-03-03T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-05T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2020-03-05T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-09T05:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2020-05-12T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Economic and Workforce Development;Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-09T05:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPAA: EC To AP
- **2020-06-09T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2020-06-10T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2020-06-10T05:00:00+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
- **2020-06-22T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Busby,McGee,Denton
- **2020-06-22T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Parker,England,McMahan
- **2020-06-23T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2020-06-23T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2020-06-24T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2020-06-25T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2020-06-30T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2020-06-30T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2020-07-07T05:00:00+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/55e7cbdc-863a-4eee-ba95-c60d6b6c18d1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).