---
type: "Bill"
title: "Appropriation; State Public Defender, Office of."
description: "Appropriation; State Public Defender, Office of."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1383"
citation: "Mississippi HB 1383 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Read"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-02-17T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-06T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9a203cb9-ec7e-41d6-830a-1291ec0113d5"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2021/pdf/House_authors/Banks.xml"
source_hash: "ee689c0a6c888040961031e98d9b1abe23c80edb790c3821103db6b6ad02a1b6"
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 1383 (2021) — Appropriation; State Public Defender, Office of.

## 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/HB1383IN.htm)
2. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 1383** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB1383.pdf)
3. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/HB/1300-1399/HB1383PS.htm)
4. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/pdf/sam/HB1383_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
5. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/HB/1300-1399/HB1383SG.htm)

## Votes

- Adopt Conference Report — **51–0** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **115–2** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **116–2** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **51–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Read — primary (person)
- Banks — cosponsor (person)
- Beckett — cosponsor (person)
- Bennett — cosponsor (person)
- Bounds — cosponsor (person)
- Busby — cosponsor (person)
- Cockerham — cosponsor (person)
- Hines — cosponsor (person)
- Hopkins — cosponsor (person)
- Watson — cosponsor (person)
- White — cosponsor (person)
- Young — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-22T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-23T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2021-02-23T06:00:00+00:00** Immediate Release
- **2021-02-23T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2021-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-15T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-16T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-16T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2021-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2021-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2021-03-22T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Read,White,Cockerham
- **2021-03-22T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Hopson,Norwood,Seymour
- **2021-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2021-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2021-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2021-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2021-03-30T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2021-03-30T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2021-04-06T05:00:00+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/9a203cb9-ec7e-41d6-830a-1291ec0113d5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).