---
type: "Bill"
title: "Counties; may also maintain electronic format of law books in courtrooms and in county public law libraries."
description: "Counties; may also maintain electronic format of law books in courtrooms and in county public law libraries."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 493"
citation: "Mississippi HB 493 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["County Affairs", "Judiciary A", "Judiciary", "Division A"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Byrd"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-02-04T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2020-06-29T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c4c48333-cba9-4f2b-bfea-4705d37d355a"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2020/pdf/House_authors/Byrd.xml"
source_hash: "e97f335deaab4b5a28c5bafe2faebe18d4f7070444a958338d3cace17768a9eb"
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 493 (2020) — Counties; may also maintain electronic format of law books in courtrooms and in county public law libraries.

## 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/HB0493IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 to Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/pdf/sam/HB0493_S_Amend_01_to_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 493** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB0493.pdf)
4. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/HB/0400-0499/HB0493PS.htm)
5. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/pdf/sam/HB0493_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
6. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/HB/0400-0499/HB0493CS.htm)
7. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/HB/0400-0499/HB0493SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage as Amended — **51–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **118–1** (pass) · lower
- Concurrence in Amendment From Senate — **117–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Byrd — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-04T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To County Affairs;Judiciary A `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: CA To JA
- **2020-02-26T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPCS: JA To CA
- **2020-03-03T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-05T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2020-03-05T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-09T05:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2020-05-11T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary, Division A `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-28T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2020-06-10T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2020-06-10T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2020-06-12T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2020-06-17T05:00:00+00:00** Concurred in Amend From Senate
- **2020-06-22T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2020-06-23T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2020-06-29T05:00:00+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/c4c48333-cba9-4f2b-bfea-4705d37d355a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).