---
type: "Bill"
title: "Memorial highway; designate a segment of United States Highway 82 in Webster County as \"Corporal William Justin Cooper Memorial Highway.\""
description: "Memorial highway; designate a segment of United States Highway 82 in Webster County as \"Corporal William Justin Cooper Memorial Highway.\""
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 887"
citation: "Mississippi HB 887 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations", "Highways and Transportation", "Transportation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hood"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 23
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-01-18T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-05T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/312f4411-fd8d-4091-af1a-728fb665c33e"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2021/pdf/House_authors/Hood.xml"
source_hash: "878be3760edb064893a4e95c90976d037d4d97d15f7487beed99e8d70e3e8698"
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 887 (2021) — Memorial highway; designate a segment of United States Highway 82 in Webster County as "Corporal William Justin Cooper Memorial Highway."

## 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/0800-0899/HB0887IN.htm)
2. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 887** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB0887.pdf)
3. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/HB/0800-0899/HB0887PS.htm)
4. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/pdf/sam/HB0887_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
5. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/HB/0800-0899/HB0887CS.htm)
6. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/HB/0800-0899/HB0887SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **121–0** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **121–0** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **51–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hood — primary (person)
- Oliver — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-18T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Transportation;Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-26T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPCS: TR To AP
- **2021-01-28T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPCS: AP To TR
- **2021-01-28T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2021-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2021-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2021-02-22T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Highways and Transportation;Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-01T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPAA: HI To AP
- **2021-03-02T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-10T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-10T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2021-03-11T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2021-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2021-03-22T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Busby,Mangold,Reynolds
- **2021-03-23T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Branning,Whaley,DeLano
- **2021-03-25T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2021-03-25T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2021-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2021-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2021-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2021-03-29T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2021-04-05T05:00:00+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/312f4411-fd8d-4091-af1a-728fb665c33e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).