---
type: "Bill"
title: "Appropriation; Capital Post-Conviction Counsel, Office of."
description: "Appropriation; Capital Post-Conviction Counsel, Office of."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 1697"
citation: "Mississippi HB 1697 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Read"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2020-05-26T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2020-07-07T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/163b9a7a-15f6-4f87-8c36-f7e31cfa7449"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2020/pdf/House_authors/Banks.xml"
source_hash: "4d6b453589ed4f40ebdd8bf574ec9383dcea1f6cc30f4379a5fe0c70291f295d"
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 1697 (2020) — Appropriation; Capital Post-Conviction Counsel, Office of.

## 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/1600-1699/HB1697IN.htm)
2. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 1697** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB1697.pdf)
3. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/HB/1600-1699/HB1697PS.htm)
4. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/pdf/sam/HB1697_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
5. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/HB/1600-1699/HB1697SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **115–3** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **116–2** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **51–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Read — primary (person)
- Banks — cosponsor (person)
- Beckett — cosponsor (person)
- Bennett — cosponsor (person)
- Bounds — cosponsor (person)
- Busby — cosponsor (person)
- Cockerham — cosponsor (person)
- Foster — cosponsor (person)
- Hines — cosponsor (person)
- Hopkins — cosponsor (person)
- Watson — cosponsor (person)
- White — cosponsor (person)
- Young — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-05-26T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-27T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-05-27T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2020-05-27T05:00:00+00:00** Immediate Release
- **2020-05-27T05:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2020-06-03T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-11T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2020-06-12T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2020-06-12T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2020-06-15T05:00:00+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 Read,White,Beckett
- **2020-06-22T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Hopson,Michel,DeBar
- **2020-06-26T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2020-06-26T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2020-06-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2020-06-27T05:00:00+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/163b9a7a-15f6-4f87-8c36-f7e31cfa7449`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).