---
type: "Bill"
title: "Municipal candidates; clarify residency requirements of certain."
description: "Municipal candidates; clarify residency requirements of certain."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 1341"
citation: "Mississippi HB 1341 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Accountability", "Efficiency", "Transparency", "Apportionment and Elections", "Elections"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McGee"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-01-17T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-03-17T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b4a3f2f5-f0a4-4068-980c-c1c125e33b2f"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2022/pdf/House_authors/McGee.xml"
source_hash: "942e7f52b467fd25e3f905c26d28b5c63e4a104b26e61ec73d2635b3174dc2f7"
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 1341 (2022) — Municipal candidates; clarify residency requirements of certain.

## 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/1300-1399/HB1341IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/HB/1300-1399/HB1341PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/HB/1300-1399/HB1341SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **52–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **121–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- McGee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-17T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Apportionment and Elections `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-01T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-07T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2022-02-08T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2022-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Elections;Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-28T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: EL To AC
- **2022-03-01T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-08T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2022-03-09T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2022-03-10T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2022-03-11T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2022-03-17T05:00:00+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/b4a3f2f5-f0a4-4068-980c-c1c125e33b2f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).