---
type: "Bill"
title: "Motor vehicle license tags; remove requirement for apportioned vehicles to have decal with expiration month/year on tag."
description: "Motor vehicle license tags; remove requirement for apportioned vehicles to have decal with expiration month/year on tag."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 519"
citation: "Mississippi HB 519 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Finance", "Ways and Means"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lamar"]
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/6fef497c-e987-4be7-af45-38e6a2283b48"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2021/pdf/House_authors/Lamar.xml"
source_hash: "210c0789d0dd7e56ebdc8a226ba79a4577d7b3dd17d8582d0a213b8a0e3143dc"
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 519 (2021) — Motor vehicle license tags; remove requirement for apportioned vehicles to have decal with expiration month/year on tag.

## 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/0500-0599/HB0519IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/HB/0500-0599/HB0519PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/HB/0500-0599/HB0519SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **52–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **114–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Lamar — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-18T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-19T06:00:00+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`
- **2021-02-16T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-25T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-09T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2021-03-10T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2021-03-11T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2021-03-12T06:00:00+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/6fef497c-e987-4be7-af45-38e6a2283b48`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).