---
type: "Bill"
title: "Rural Fire Truck Acquisition Assistance Program; authorize two additional rounds for counties and municipalities."
description: "Rural Fire Truck Acquisition Assistance Program; authorize two additional rounds for counties and municipalities."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 842"
citation: "Mississippi HB 842 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations", "Ways and Means"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Byrd"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2022-01-17T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-04-18T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8fd44188-ba6a-4fc3-8769-b6581b40ccf6"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2022/pdf/House_authors/Bounds.xml"
source_hash: "f1cf3cf66a6506a256ee92dc6fd937d7f44b7b845c0dc59be96a1d637195843f"
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 842 (2022) — Rural Fire Truck Acquisition Assistance Program; authorize two additional rounds for counties and municipalities.

## 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/0800-0899/HB0842IN.htm)
2. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 842** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB0842.pdf)
3. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/HB/0800-0899/HB0842PS.htm)
4. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/HB/0800-0899/HB0842CS.htm)
5. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/HB/0800-0899/HB0842SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage as Amended — **52–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **118–3** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **115–5** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **52–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Byrd — primary (person)
- Bounds — cosponsor (person)
- Karriem — cosponsor (person)
- Miles — cosponsor (person)
- Reynolds — cosponsor (person)
- Stamps — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-17T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-26T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-02T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2022-02-02T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2022-02-03T06:00:00+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
- **2022-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2022-03-22T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Lamar,Carpenter,Massengill
- **2022-03-22T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Hopson,Michel,Hill
- **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
- **2022-04-18T05:00:00+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/8fd44188-ba6a-4fc3-8769-b6581b40ccf6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).