---
type: "Bill"
title: "Appropriation; Environmental Quality, Department of."
description: "Appropriation; Environmental Quality, Department of."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 1706"
citation: "Mississippi HB 1706 (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/16153d3e-9964-4c88-9049-ad2dd61cbba9"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2020/pdf/House_authors/Arnold.xml"
source_hash: "04792524af908e36fa003704376c8807a04a98f3cccdd386b59b16d39c4a7c67"
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 1706 (2020) — Appropriation; Environmental Quality, Department 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/1700-1799/HB1706IN.htm)
2. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 1706** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB1706.pdf)
3. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/HB/1700-1799/HB1706PS.htm)
4. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/pdf/sam/HB1706_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
5. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/HB/1700-1799/HB1706SG.htm)

## Votes

- Adopt Conference Report — **114–3** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **115–3** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **51–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Read — primary (person)
- Arnold — cosponsor (person)
- Beckett — cosponsor (person)
- Bounds — cosponsor (person)
- Eure — cosponsor (person)
- Hale — cosponsor (person)
- Mangold — cosponsor (person)
- Oliver — cosponsor (person)
- Turner — 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,Bounds,Beckett
- **2020-06-22T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Hopson,Jackson (32nd),Hill
- **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
- **2020-07-01T05:00:00+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/16153d3e-9964-4c88-9049-ad2dd61cbba9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).