---
type: "Bill"
title: "School attendance officers; clarify salaries of."
description: "School attendance officers; clarify salaries of."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 263"
citation: "Mississippi HB 263 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Read"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-27T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2020-06-22T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e25ac9d2-67ad-425d-bd7a-52b1f07acf2c"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2020/pdf/House_authors/Read.xml"
source_hash: "4e56af43c455908938c5309157786a434c85b16ce755e11cb94019cda946bbc0"
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 263 (2020) — School attendance officers; clarify salaries 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/0200-0299/HB0263IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/HB/0200-0299/HB0263PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/HB/0200-0299/HB0263SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **51–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **117–4** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Read — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-27T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-20T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-25T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2020-02-26T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2020-02-28T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-04T05:00:00+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/e25ac9d2-67ad-425d-bd7a-52b1f07acf2c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).