---
type: "Bill"
title: "Home inspector license; require applicants to undergo certain background checks."
description: "Home inspector license; require applicants to undergo certain background checks."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 352"
citation: "Mississippi HB 352 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Business and Financial Institutions", "Judiciary A"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Deweese"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 11
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/cc77a47f-8ec3-42d3-b73d-d7a6c64abab5"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2021/pdf/House_authors/Aguirre.xml"
source_hash: "6f1488ec0ed0d26cc4e6eaca4b45d6b3dd5bf570b8d193f7f47c06a53e566ac4"
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 352 (2021) — Home inspector license; require applicants to undergo certain background checks.

## 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/HB0352IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/HB/0300-0399/HB0352PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/HB/0300-0399/HB0352SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **111–4** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Deweese — primary (person)
- Aguirre — cosponsor (person)
- Barnett — cosponsor (person)
- Bell (21st) — cosponsor (person)
- Felsher — cosponsor (person)
- Ford (54th) — cosponsor (person)
- Ford (73rd) — cosponsor (person)
- Haney — cosponsor (person)
- Horan — cosponsor (person)
- McKnight — cosponsor (person)
- McLean — cosponsor (person)
- Powell — cosponsor (person)
- Scoggin — cosponsor (person)
- Shanks — cosponsor (person)
- Steverson — cosponsor (person)
- Yancey — 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 Business and Financial Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-02T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-08T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2021-03-09T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2021-03-10T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2021-03-10T06:00:00+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/cc77a47f-8ec3-42d3-b73d-d7a6c64abab5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).