---
type: "Bill"
title: "Airport authorities; authorize to provide dependent health insurance coverage as employment benefit."
description: "Airport authorities; authorize to provide dependent health insurance coverage as employment benefit."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 974"
citation: "Mississippi HB 974 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Zuber"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 15
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2022-01-17T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-03-23T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3308349a-066a-4c86-8e04-704fb60be956"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2022/pdf/House_authors/Zuber.xml"
source_hash: "d327a648d45ab2d221851c53a136cfc82ff6f73f62294c79a6da2e8c8c1f1970"
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 974 (2022) — Airport authorities; authorize to provide dependent health insurance coverage as employment benefit.

## 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/HB0974IN.htm)
2. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 974** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB0974.pdf)
3. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/HB/0900-0999/HB0974PS.htm)
4. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/pdf/sam/HB0974_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
5. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/HB/0900-0999/HB0974CS.htm)
6. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/HB/0900-0999/HB0974SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **121–0** (pass) · lower
- Concurrence in Amendment From Senate — **115–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **52–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Zuber — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-17T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-31T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-08T06:00:00+00:00** Read the Third Time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-09T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2022-02-09T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2022-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2022-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-28T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-08T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2022-03-08T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2022-03-09T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2022-03-16T05:00:00+00:00** Concurred in Amend From Senate
- **2022-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2022-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2022-03-23T05:00:00+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/3308349a-066a-4c86-8e04-704fb60be956`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).