---
type: "Bill"
title: "Driver's license; increase time period to renew expired license without examination."
description: "Driver's license; increase time period to renew expired license without examination."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 971"
citation: "Mississippi HB 971 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Highways and Transportation", "Judiciary", "Division A", "Transportation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McKnight"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 24
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2022-01-17T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-04-14T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/90df72e5-e8d3-4409-bb1c-417a727b35ad"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2022/pdf/House_authors/Busby.xml"
source_hash: "30ea6dd761b7307a7718fa1be1ff6003d3d66e6b518893ef9c1b8f16d0a6ebc4"
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 971 (2022) — Driver's license; increase time period to renew expired license without examination.

## 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/0900-0999/HB0971IN.htm)
2. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 971** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB0971.pdf)
3. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/HB/0900-0999/HB0971PS.htm)
4. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/pdf/sam/HB0971_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
5. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/HB/0900-0999/HB0971CS.htm)
6. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/HB/0900-0999/HB0971SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **52–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **120–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **52–0** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **114–6** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **52–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- McKnight — primary (person)
- Busby — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-17T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-26T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-03T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2022-02-03T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2022-02-04T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2022-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Highways and Transportation;Judiciary, Division A `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-23T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPAA: HI To JA
- **2022-03-01T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-09T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2022-03-09T06:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered
- **2022-03-09T06:00:00+00:00** Reconsidered
- **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
- **2022-03-14T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2022-03-16T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Busby,Massengill,McKnight
- **2022-03-22T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Branning,DeLano,Williams
- **2022-03-25T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2022-03-25T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2022-03-27T05:00:00+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
- **2022-04-14T05:00:00+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/90df72e5-e8d3-4409-bb1c-417a727b35ad`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).