---
type: "Bill"
title: "Election commissioners; authorize per diem for primary and runoff election days and provide for pandemic pay for election commissioners and poll managers."
description: "Election commissioners; authorize per diem for primary and runoff election days and provide for pandemic pay for election commissioners and poll managers."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 824"
citation: "Mississippi HB 824 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Apportionment and Elections", "Elections"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beckett"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2020-02-13T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2020-07-08T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8a145185-0c10-407c-8403-fc8462ab1dca"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2020/pdf/House_authors/Beckett.xml"
source_hash: "86fdd20ffb7e82a92bd32593cfab1ab747be3be425fc1355b2a17817ec23817f"
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 824 (2020) — Election commissioners; authorize per diem for primary and runoff election days and provide for pandemic pay for election commissioners and poll managers.

## 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/0800-0899/HB0824IN.htm)
2. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 824** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB0824.pdf)
3. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/HB/0800-0899/HB0824PS.htm)
4. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/pdf/sam/HB0824_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
5. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/HB/0800-0899/HB0824SG.htm)

## Votes

- Adopt Conference Report — **52–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **112–8** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **51–0** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **114–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Beckett — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Apportionment and Elections `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-20T06:00:00+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`
- **2020-05-11T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Elections `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-08T05:00:00+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
- **2020-06-17T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2020-06-22T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Beckett,Eubanks,Reynolds
- **2020-06-22T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Branning,Tate,Blackwell
- **2020-06-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2020-06-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2020-06-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2020-06-29T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2020-07-01T05:00:00+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/8a145185-0c10-407c-8403-fc8462ab1dca`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).