---
type: "Bill"
title: "Light wine, beer and light spirit product; revise number of qualified electors required to petition for election to prohibit or authorize."
description: "Light wine, beer and light spirit product; revise number of qualified electors required to petition for election to prohibit or authorize."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 945"
citation: "Mississippi HB 945 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Finance", "Ways and Means"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tubb"]
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/1adf3d3f-0ab7-4eed-afa1-57a132282f38"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2021/pdf/House_authors/Foster.xml"
source_hash: "65d36bf4e54976565609a5220d7161b277b951982b9ede8ed7fdf86e0b5e6165"
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 945 (2021) — Light wine, beer and light spirit product; revise number of qualified electors required to petition for election to prohibit or authorize.

## 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/0900-0999/HB0945IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/HB/0900-0999/HB0945PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/HB/0900-0999/HB0945SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **96–17** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **42–7** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Tubb — primary (person)
- Foster — cosponsor (person)
- Pigott — cosponsor (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`
- **2021-02-02T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `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`
- **2021-03-02T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-10T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2021-03-11T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2021-03-12T06:00:00+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/1adf3d3f-0ab7-4eed-afa1-57a132282f38`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).