---
type: "Bill"
title: "Highway privilege tax; add a gross vehicle weight category for carriers of property with additional tax."
description: "Highway privilege tax; add a gross vehicle weight category for carriers of property with additional tax."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 628"
citation: "Mississippi HB 628 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Finance", "Highways and Transportation", "Transportation", "Ways and Means"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Evans"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-18T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-24T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2ef771b7-2132-4957-b0e5-6f3197c0bdab"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2021/pdf/House_authors/Evans_(45th).xml"
source_hash: "fb4a9c2d77e125ef4b574245422beca2612cbbe1dfbed6515abf81f3cd9fb388"
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 628 (2021) — Highway privilege tax; add a gross vehicle weight category for carriers of property with additional tax.

## 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/0600-0699/HB0628IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/HB/0600-0699/HB0628PS.htm)
3. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/HB/0600-0699/HB0628CS.htm)
4. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/HB/0600-0699/HB0628SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **117–3** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **49–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Evans — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-18T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Transportation;Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-22T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPCS: TR To WM
- **2021-02-24T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPCS: WM To TR
- **2021-02-24T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-24T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2021-02-24T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2021-02-25T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2021-02-26T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Highways and Transportation;Finance `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-11T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: HI To FI
- **2021-03-11T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-16T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2021-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2021-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2021-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2021-03-24T05:00:00+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/2ef771b7-2132-4957-b0e5-6f3197c0bdab`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).