---
type: "Bill"
title: "Municipal menaced property; make certain clarifying revisions regarding."
description: "Municipal menaced property; make certain clarifying revisions regarding."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 444"
citation: "Mississippi HB 444 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Judiciary A", "Municipalities"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McGee"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-03T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2020-06-22T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2da4a88e-da7a-4e82-bd75-38a3447453d6"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2020/pdf/House_authors/McGee.xml"
source_hash: "59ff3d08872aa94d161d9f2949fecfd8e412b5cd7821c11b24f4b07c30ae4e57"
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 444 (2020) — Municipal menaced property; make certain clarifying revisions regarding.

## 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/HB0444IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/HB/0400-0499/HB0444PS.htm)
3. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/pdf/ham/HB0444_H_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
4. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/HB/0400-0499/HB0444SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage as Amended — **117–3** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **51–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- McGee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-03T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary A `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-27T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-10T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2020-03-10T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2020-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2020-05-11T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Municipalities `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-01T05:00:00+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/2da4a88e-da7a-4e82-bd75-38a3447453d6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).