---
type: "Bill"
title: "MDOT; require maintenance of rights-of-way of state highways inside municipal limits with 10,000 or less population."
description: "MDOT; require maintenance of rights-of-way of state highways inside municipal limits with 10,000 or less population."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1245"
citation: "Mississippi HB 1245 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Municipalities", "Transportation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rushing"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-01-18T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-09T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2e461573-08f8-4c09-8085-022ddd9a5a77"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2021/pdf/House_authors/Anderson_(122nd).xml"
source_hash: "e97ee79758adce4626c4121060b419ca12e4a4f3b45565fe9af213727c6d110b"
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 1245 (2021) — MDOT; require maintenance of rights-of-way of state highways inside municipal limits with 10,000 or less population.

## 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/1200-1299/HB1245IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/pdf/ham/HB1245_H_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 1245** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB1245.pdf)
4. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/HB/1200-1299/HB1245PS.htm)
5. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/pdf/sam/HB1245_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
6. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/HB/1200-1299/HB1245SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage as Amended — **117–0** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **121–0** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **51–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **52–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Rushing — primary (person)
- Anderson (122nd) — cosponsor (person)
- Barnett — cosponsor (person)
- Byrd — cosponsor (person)
- Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
- Crudup — cosponsor (person)
- Currie — cosponsor (person)
- Evans (45th) — cosponsor (person)
- Felsher — cosponsor (person)
- Foster — cosponsor (person)
- Gibbs (36th) — cosponsor (person)
- Goodin — cosponsor (person)
- Haney — cosponsor (person)
- Hobgood-Wilkes — cosponsor (person)
- Ladner — cosponsor (person)
- Mangold — cosponsor (person)
- McCray — cosponsor (person)
- Miles — cosponsor (person)
- Newman — cosponsor (person)
- Pigott — cosponsor (person)
- Porter — cosponsor (person)
- Rosebud — cosponsor (person)
- Sanford — cosponsor (person)
- Scoggin — cosponsor (person)
- Shanks — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Stamps — cosponsor (person)
- Summers — cosponsor (person)
- Tullos — cosponsor (person)
- Wallace — cosponsor (person)
- White — cosponsor (person)
- Williamson — cosponsor (person)
- Yancey — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-18T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-26T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-04T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2021-02-04T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2021-02-05T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2021-02-23T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Municipalities `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-02T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-09T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-09T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2021-03-10T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2021-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2021-03-22T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Busby,Byrd,Faulkner
- **2021-03-24T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Simmons (12th),Barrett,McCaughn
- **2021-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2021-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2021-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2021-03-29T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2021-04-01T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2021-04-01T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2021-04-09T05:00:00+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/2e461573-08f8-4c09-8085-022ddd9a5a77`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).