---
type: "Bill"
title: "Nuisance animals; prohibit the transportation, importation and release of wild hogs."
description: "Nuisance animals; prohibit the transportation, importation and release of wild hogs."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 1065"
citation: "Mississippi HB 1065 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Accountability", "Efficiency", "Transparency", "Agriculture", "Wildlife", "Fisheries and Parks"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pigott"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 26
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2022-01-17T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-04-14T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c7bbaf52-284d-470f-bb44-fdafeb2a99e4"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2022/pdf/House_authors/Hale.xml"
source_hash: "be8cc9a494e8451d1723461cba01c7dfca77e2fcf5725fea749ba9b3e2f9d956"
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 1065 (2022) — Nuisance animals; prohibit the transportation, importation and release of wild hogs.

## 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/HB1065IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 to Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/pdf/sam/HB1065_S_Amend_01_to_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 1065** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB1065.pdf)
4. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/HB/1000-1099/HB1065PS.htm)
5. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/pdf/sam/HB1065_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
6. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/HB/1000-1099/HB1065SG.htm)

## Votes

- Adopt Conference Report — **47–1** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **121–0** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **98–19** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **50–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Pigott — primary (person)
- Hale — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-17T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Agriculture `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-25T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-02T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2022-02-03T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2022-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks;Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-23T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPAA: WI To AC
- **2022-03-01T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-09T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2022-03-09T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2022-03-09T06:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered
- **2022-03-10T06:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Tabled
- **2022-03-11T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2022-03-14T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2022-03-16T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Pigott,Mangold,Bounds
- **2022-03-21T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Whaley,Hill,Parker
- **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
- **2022-03-29T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2022-03-29T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered (Boyd, Pigott, Mangold)
- **2022-03-30T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Tabled
- **2022-03-30T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered
- **2022-03-31T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Tabled
- **2022-04-01T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2022-04-01T05:00:00+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/c7bbaf52-284d-470f-bb44-fdafeb2a99e4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).