---
type: "Bill"
title: "Municipal judges; authorize to hold court outside municipal boundaries that is more than within a one-mile radius of municipality to accept pleas."
description: "Municipal judges; authorize to hold court outside municipal boundaries that is more than within a one-mile radius of municipality to accept pleas."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 273"
citation: "Mississippi HB 273 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Municipalities", "Judiciary", "Division A"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Zuber"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-27T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2020-06-25T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dc04a751-f0a1-4438-a925-cec995371499"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2020/pdf/House_authors/Foster.xml"
source_hash: "7b29c8f2b912c0614cb0e87b0c4168da822af3083f0f94bbfb53d9de91053905"
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 273 (2020) — Municipal judges; authorize to hold court outside municipal boundaries that is more than within a one-mile radius of municipality to accept pleas.

## 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/HB0273IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/HB/0200-0299/HB0273PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/HB/0200-0299/HB0273SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **118–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-27T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Municipalities `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-25T06:00:00+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`
- **2020-05-12T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Municipalities;Judiciary, Division A `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-01T05:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: MU To JA
- **2020-06-04T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-06-12T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2020-06-15T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2020-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2020-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2020-06-25T05:00:00+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/dc04a751-f0a1-4438-a925-cec995371499`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).