---
type: "Bill"
title: "State flag; shall be the design recommended by the Commission to Redesign the State Flag and approved in the November 2020 election."
description: "State flag; shall be the design recommended by the Commission to Redesign the State Flag and approved in the November 2020 election."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1"
citation: "Mississippi HB 1 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Rules"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gunn"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-05T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2021-01-11T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/68187934-7e51-48fe-bac3-68f4ca9a459f"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2021/pdf/House_authors/Bennett.xml"
source_hash: "1296449d36d76bafc3f8d9e083ffef9547c8af8716502874f674c92fc599f407"
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 1 (2021) — State flag; shall be the design recommended by the Commission to Redesign the State Flag and approved in the November 2020 election.

## 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/2021/html/HB/0001-0099/HB0001IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/HB/0001-0099/HB0001PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/HB/0001-0099/HB0001SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **118–1** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **43–7** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gunn — primary (person)
- Bennett — cosponsor (person)
- Clark — cosponsor (person)
- Creekmore IV — cosponsor (person)
- Crudup — cosponsor (person)
- Faulkner — cosponsor (person)
- Gibbs (36th) — cosponsor (person)
- Gibbs (72nd) — cosponsor (person)
- Hines — cosponsor (person)
- Holloway — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Karriem — cosponsor (person)
- McCarty — cosponsor (person)
- McGee — cosponsor (person)
- Mickens — cosponsor (person)
- Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Reynolds — cosponsor (person)
- Scott — cosponsor (person)
- Stamps — cosponsor (person)
- Summers — cosponsor (person)
- Watson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-05T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Rules `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-05T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-05T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2021-01-05T06:00:00+00:00** Immediate Release
- **2021-01-05T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2021-01-05T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Rules `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-05T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-06T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2021-01-06T06:00:00+00:00** Immediate Release
- **2021-01-06T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2021-01-06T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2021-01-06T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2021-01-11T06:00:00+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/68187934-7e51-48fe-bac3-68f4ca9a459f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).