---
type: "Bill"
title: "Compact for a Balanced Budget; revise delegate membership and extend sunset provision."
description: "Compact for a Balanced Budget; revise delegate membership and extend sunset provision."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1326"
citation: "Mississippi HB 1326 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Rules"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Read"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-18T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-17T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0425c4de-6431-4983-945d-ccd8667ac110"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2021/pdf/House_authors/Brown_(20th).xml"
source_hash: "e711e61983f8f8d644ccf554f0f4463702120eacb14a7e844d90bc848823df0d"
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 1326 (2021) — Compact for a Balanced Budget; revise delegate membership and extend sunset provision.

## 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/1300-1399/HB1326IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/pdf/ham/HB1326_H_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/HB/1300-1399/HB1326PS.htm)
4. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/HB/1300-1399/HB1326SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **35–14** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **75–44** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Read — primary (person)
- Brown (20th) — cosponsor (person)
- Eubanks — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-18T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Rules `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-02T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Read the Third Time `reading-3`
- **2021-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2021-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2021-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Immediate Release
- **2021-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2021-02-16T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Rules `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-01T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-10T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2021-03-11T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2021-03-12T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2021-03-12T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2021-03-17T05:00:00+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/0425c4de-6431-4983-945d-ccd8667ac110`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).