---
type: "Bill"
title: "Counties; authorize boards of supervisors to pay county employees every two weeks."
description: "Counties; authorize boards of supervisors to pay county employees every two weeks."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 415"
citation: "Mississippi HB 415 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["County Affairs"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Powell"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2020-02-03T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2020-07-02T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1af2fba0-5fed-423d-ac9c-1c1c397904e1"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2020/pdf/House_authors/Anthony.xml"
source_hash: "8b727f41e308f729afd36ac6e2bcbd88c86b3f915d877d909e28128c60772368"
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 415 (2020) — Counties; authorize boards of supervisors to pay county employees every two weeks.

## 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/0400-0499/HB0415IN.htm)
2. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 415** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB0415.pdf)
3. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/HB/0400-0499/HB0415PS.htm)
4. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/pdf/sam/HB0415_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
5. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/HB/0400-0499/HB0415CS.htm)
6. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/HB/0400-0499/HB0415SG.htm)

## Votes

- Adopt Conference Report — **52–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **117–0** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **117–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **52–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Powell — primary (person)
- Anthony — cosponsor (person)
- Byrd — cosponsor (person)
- Newman — cosponsor (person)
- Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Shanks — cosponsor (person)
- Wallace — cosponsor (person)
- Weathersby — cosponsor (person)
- Yancey — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-03T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To County Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-25T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2020-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2020-05-11T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To County Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-02T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2020-06-17T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2020-06-17T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2020-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2020-06-19T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2020-06-22T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Byrd,Taylor,Smith
- **2020-06-22T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Hill,Younger,Chism
- **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
- **2020-06-24T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2020-06-25T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2020-06-25T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2020-07-02T05:00:00+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/1af2fba0-5fed-423d-ac9c-1c1c397904e1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).