---
type: "Bill"
title: "Mississippi Broadband Accessibility Act; create."
description: "Mississippi Broadband Accessibility Act; create."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 1029"
citation: "Mississippi HB 1029 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations", "Energy", "Public Utilities"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bounds"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 30
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2022-01-17T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-04-14T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8ec51b0c-77b3-4dcd-ba03-95308f7f4773"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2022/pdf/House_authors/Bounds.xml"
source_hash: "774a3410f171ea9be515753ec07a0621e968806bdf15dbfcaf481f2e6476fb8a"
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 1029 (2022) — Mississippi Broadband Accessibility Act; create.

## 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/2022/html/HB/1000-1099/HB1029IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 (Cmte Sub) (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/pdf/ham/HB1029_H_(Cmte_Sub)_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **Amendment No 1 to Amendment No 1 (Cmte Sub) (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/pdf/ham/HB1029_H_(Cmte_Sub)_Amend_01_to_Amend_01.htm)
4. **Amendment No 1 to Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/pdf/sam/HB1029_S_Amend_01_to_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
5. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 1029** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB1029.pdf)
6. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/HB/1000-1099/HB1029PS.htm)
7. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/pdf/sam/HB1029_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
8. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/HB/1000-1099/HB1029CS.htm)
9. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/HB/1000-1099/HB1029SG.htm)

## Votes

- Concurrence in Amendment From Senate — **112–6** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **51–0** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **52–0** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **112–6** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **111–6** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bounds — primary (person)
- Stamps — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-17T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Public Utilities;Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-31T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPCS: PU To AP
- **2022-02-01T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPCS: AP To PU
- **2022-02-01T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-08T06:00:00+00:00** Read the Third Time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2022-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Tabled
- **2022-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2022-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2022-02-14T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2022-02-15T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Energy `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-01T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-02T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2022-03-02T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2022-03-02T06:00:00+00:00** Immediate Release
- **2022-03-02T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2022-03-03T06:00:00+00:00** Concurred in Amend From Senate
- **2022-03-03T06:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered (Lamar, Bounds, Anderson (122nd))
- **2022-03-09T06:00:00+00:00** Reconsidered
- **2022-03-09T06:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2022-03-22T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Carter,Parks,Harkins
- **2022-03-22T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Bounds,Anderson (122nd),Read
- **2022-03-23T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Bounds,Stamps,Read
- **2022-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2022-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2022-03-29T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2022-03-30T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2022-04-04T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2022-04-05T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2022-04-14T05:00:00+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/8ec51b0c-77b3-4dcd-ba03-95308f7f4773`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).