---
type: "Bill"
title: "Municipal judges; authorize to order a defendant to remedy real property ordinance violations within a reasonable time period."
description: "Municipal judges; authorize to order a defendant to remedy real property ordinance violations within a reasonable time period."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 354"
citation: "Mississippi HB 354 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Judiciary A", "Judiciary", "Division A"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McGee"]
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/68ce9a0c-bf2c-4dcc-b380-193067e98509"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2021/pdf/House_authors/McGee.xml"
source_hash: "b9c478d9f07cb75fca9e768c845e649233c2ffdcb524c950893a952fd9d6f8a7"
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 354 (2021) — Municipal judges; authorize to order a defendant to remedy real property ordinance violations within a reasonable time period.

## 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/HB0354IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/HB/0300-0399/HB0354PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/HB/0300-0399/HB0354SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **46–1** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **111–7** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- McGee — primary (person)
- Reynolds — cosponsor (person)
- Summers — 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`
- **2021-02-02T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2021-02-11T06:00:00+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`
- **2021-03-08T06:00:00+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/68ce9a0c-bf2c-4dcc-b380-193067e98509`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).