---
type: "Bill"
title: "Tribal identification cards; recognize as legal means of personal identification."
description: "Tribal identification cards; recognize as legal means of personal identification."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 277"
citation: "Mississippi HB 277 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Judiciary A", "Judiciary", "Division A"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bounds"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-18T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-18T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/abe75afe-1524-4f42-8a5b-c9a8b7191dcf"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2021/pdf/House_authors/Bounds.xml"
source_hash: "12da7003056030258690045bbf3a05f9eaf2254b721ecc32d1f1465e3c87912a"
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 277 (2021) — Tribal identification cards; recognize as legal means of personal identification.

## 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/0200-0299/HB0277IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/HB/0200-0299/HB0277PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/HB/0200-0299/HB0277SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **52–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **119–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bounds — primary (person)
- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
- Gibbs (72nd) — cosponsor (person)
- Stamps — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-18T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary A `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-28T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-09T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2021-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2021-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary, Division A `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-25T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2021-03-08T06:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered
- **2021-03-11T06:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Tabled
- **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
- **2021-03-18T05:00:00+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/abe75afe-1524-4f42-8a5b-c9a8b7191dcf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).