---
type: "Bill"
title: "The Victoria Huggins Mississippi Pill Press Act of 2022; create."
description: "The Victoria Huggins Mississippi Pill Press Act of 2022; create."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 679"
citation: "Mississippi HB 679 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Drug Policy", "Judiciary B", "Judiciary", "Division B"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Yancey"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2022-01-17T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-04-08T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1c333a4e-b68d-4626-901b-b35abf6b777f"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2022/pdf/House_authors/Ford_(73rd).xml"
source_hash: "e60eb2c46e80e0153a04e6faf2759d2e7b013db1f4f2aa5f462d8a9641e1f652"
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 679 (2022) — The Victoria Huggins Mississippi Pill Press Act of 2022; 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/0600-0699/HB0679IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 2 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/pdf/ham/HB0679_H_Amend_02.pdf)
3. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 679** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB0679.pdf)
4. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/HB/0600-0699/HB0679PS.htm)
5. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/pdf/ham/HB0679_H_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
6. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/HB/0600-0699/HB0679SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage as Amended — **49–3** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **113–6** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **114–4** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Yancey — primary (person)
- Ford (73rd) — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-17T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Drug Policy;Judiciary B `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-19T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPAA: DP To JB
- **2022-01-20T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPAA: JB To DP
- **2022-01-20T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-03T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2022-02-03T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2022-02-07T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2022-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary, Division B `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-24T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2022-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2022-03-08T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2022-03-09T06:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2022-03-16T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Yancey,Bain,Creekmore IV
- **2022-03-21T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Fillingane,Sparks,Barnett
- **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
- **2022-03-31T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2022-03-31T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2022-04-08T05:00:00+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/1c333a4e-b68d-4626-901b-b35abf6b777f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).