---
type: "Bill"
title: "Department of Marine Resources Chief Financial Officer; revise the qualifications for."
description: "Department of Marine Resources Chief Financial Officer; revise the qualifications for."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 827"
citation: "Mississippi HB 827 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Marine Resources", "Ports and Marine Resources", "Accountability", "Efficiency", "Transparency"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ladner"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 14
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-02-13T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2020-06-30T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/867db62c-462c-4f96-8102-af49c8493354"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2020/pdf/House_authors/Ladner.xml"
source_hash: "f555e6b93d47287839dd628a19284388469a2e3c71577839631d81428e5701e7"
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 827 (2020) — Department of Marine Resources Chief Financial Officer; revise the qualifications for.

## 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/HB0827IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 to Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/pdf/sam/HB0827_S_Amend_01_to_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 827** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB0827.pdf)
4. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/HB/0800-0899/HB0827PS.htm)
5. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/pdf/sam/HB0827_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
6. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/HB/0800-0899/HB0827SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **120–0** (pass) · lower
- Concurrence in Amendment From Senate — **116–2** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **51–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ladner — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Marine Resources `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-26T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-10T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2020-05-12T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Ports and Marine Resources;Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-04T05:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPAA: PI To AC
- **2020-06-08T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2020-06-11T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2020-06-11T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2020-06-15T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2020-06-17T05:00:00+00:00** Concurred in Amend From Senate
- **2020-06-23T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2020-06-24T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2020-06-30T05:00:00+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/867db62c-462c-4f96-8102-af49c8493354`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).