---
type: "Bill"
title: "Livestock on highways; delete burden on owner of livestock to prove lack of negligence when damages from."
description: "Livestock on highways; delete burden on owner of livestock to prove lack of negligence when damages from."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 576"
citation: "Mississippi HB 576 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Judiciary A", "Judiciary", "Division A"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wallace"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 22
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2020-02-05T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2020-07-08T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4252346c-cb45-40b6-b3de-bd4a04b267fe"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2020/pdf/House_authors/Barnett.xml"
source_hash: "2a02d68903db1825c7cb6308e8e1115a561c8f15c70db612d346dea35a7b037f"
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 576 (2020) — Livestock on highways; delete burden on owner of livestock to prove lack of negligence when damages from.

## 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/0500-0599/HB0576IN.htm)
2. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 576** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB0576.pdf)
3. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/HB/0500-0599/HB0576PS.htm)
4. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/pdf/sam/HB0576_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
5. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/pdf/ham/HB0576_H_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
6. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/HB/0500-0599/HB0576SG.htm)

## Votes

- Adopt Conference Report — **36–9** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **102–10** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **37–13** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **107–7** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Wallace — primary (person)
- Barnett — cosponsor (person)
- Calvert — cosponsor (person)
- Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
- Evans (45th) — cosponsor (person)
- Ford (54th) — cosponsor (person)
- Gibbs (36th) — cosponsor (person)
- Horan — cosponsor (person)
- Huddleston — cosponsor (person)
- Lamar — cosponsor (person)
- Lancaster — cosponsor (person)
- Massengill — cosponsor (person)
- Newman — cosponsor (person)
- Pigott — cosponsor (person)
- Shanks — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Steverson — cosponsor (person)
- Walker — cosponsor (person)
- Weathersby — cosponsor (person)
- White — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-05T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary A `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-03T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Tabled Subject To Call
- **2020-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2020-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2020-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2020-05-11T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary, Division A `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-09T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2020-06-15T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2020-06-15T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2020-06-16T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2020-06-24T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2020-06-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Cockerham,Felsher,Hood
- **2020-06-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Doty,McCaughn,England
- **2020-06-29T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Cockerham,Blackmon,Tullos
- **2020-06-29T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2020-06-29T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2020-06-30T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2020-06-30T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2020-07-02T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2020-07-02T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2020-07-08T05:00:00+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/4252346c-cb45-40b6-b3de-bd4a04b267fe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).