---
type: "Bill"
title: "Salary statutes; revise certain provisions relating to salaries of state employees and officials."
description: "Salary statutes; revise certain provisions relating to salaries of state employees and officials."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 1426"
citation: "Mississippi HB 1426 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Read"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2022-01-17T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-04-25T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/008e30e0-3278-4d7f-a387-8be31520bccc"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2022/pdf/House_authors/Foster.xml"
source_hash: "17502c91d3d3119b9cc38dba4bc9c6bcfb143e70c4fc1b9fbdf6f87c61584add"
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 1426 (2022) — Salary statutes; revise certain provisions relating to salaries of state employees and officials.

## 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/1400-1499/HB1426IN.htm)
2. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 1426** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB1426.pdf)
3. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/HB/1400-1499/HB1426PS.htm)
4. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/pdf/ham/HB1426_H_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
5. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/HB/1400-1499/HB1426SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage as Amended — **76–33** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **72–34** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **46–3** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **47–5** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Read — primary (person)
- Foster — cosponsor (person)
- Shanks — cosponsor (person)
- Stamps — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-17T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-27T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-08T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2022-02-08T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2022-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2022-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **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`
- **2022-03-10T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2022-03-15T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2022-03-22T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Read,Oliver,White
- **2022-03-22T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Hopson,Polk,Blackwell
- **2022-03-29T05:00:00+00:00** Suspend from Deadlines by HC 89
- **2022-04-04T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2022-04-04T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2022-04-04T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2022-04-04T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2022-04-07T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2022-04-07T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2022-04-25T05:00:00+00:00** Law W/out Governor's Signature `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/008e30e0-3278-4d7f-a387-8be31520bccc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).