---
type: "Bill"
title: "Central Market Board; abolish and transfer functions of to the Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce."
description: "Central Market Board; abolish and transfer functions of to the Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 312"
citation: "Mississippi HB 312 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Accountability", "Efficiency", "Transparency", "Agriculture"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pigott"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
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/19f0d0b4-75f4-444c-a611-86729d9e8231"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2021/pdf/House_authors/Hopkins.xml"
source_hash: "b3a6f1affa36124eb6d53e66ce32639fb9a048607d375520731991261418735a"
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 312 (2021) — Central Market Board; abolish and transfer functions of to the Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce.

## 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/0300-0399/HB0312IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/HB/0300-0399/HB0312PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/HB/0300-0399/HB0312SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **52–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **118–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Pigott — primary (person)
- Hopkins — cosponsor (person)
- Mangold — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-18T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Agriculture `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-26T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-03T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2021-02-04T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2021-02-22T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-02T06:00:00+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
- **2021-03-10T06:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Tabled
- **2021-03-10T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2021-03-11T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2021-03-11T06:00:00+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/19f0d0b4-75f4-444c-a611-86729d9e8231`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).