---
type: "Bill"
title: "Distinctive motor vehicle license tags; authorize for 2021 National Championship Bulldogs."
description: "Distinctive motor vehicle license tags; authorize for 2021 National Championship Bulldogs."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 2223"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2223 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Finance", "Ways and Means"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Harkins"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2022-01-13T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-04-14T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1ab8ce0e-4e28-4e00-9c0a-3c38401bf522"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2022/pdf/House_authors/Blount.xml"
source_hash: "d9badbd355bcfe1f189be25e1d53d8560ae9b479406e94581f739b4f5a5b3cc4"
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 SB 2223 (2022) — Distinctive motor vehicle license tags; authorize for 2021 National Championship Bulldogs.

## 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/SB/2200-2299/SB2223IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/pdf/ham/SB2223_H_Amend_01.htm)
3. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 2223** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB2223.pdf)
4. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/SB/2200-2299/SB2223PS.htm)
5. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/SB/2200-2299/SB2223SG.htm)

## Votes

- Adopt Conference Report — **122–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **121–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **51–0** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **52–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Harkins — primary (person)
- Blount — cosponsor (person)
- Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Branning — cosponsor (person)
- Caughman — cosponsor (person)
- DeBar — cosponsor (person)
- England — cosponsor (person)
- Fillingane — cosponsor (person)
- Hickman — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- McCaughn — cosponsor (person)
- Michel — cosponsor (person)
- Moran — cosponsor (person)
- Parker — cosponsor (person)
- Sparks — cosponsor (person)
- Suber — cosponsor (person)
- Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Turner-Ford — cosponsor (person)
- Williams — cosponsor (person)
- Younger — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-13T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-25T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-03T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2022-02-03T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2022-02-08T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2022-02-09T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-01T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `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** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2022-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Harkins,Boyd,England
- **2022-03-22T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Steverson,Powell,Zuber
- **2022-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2022-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2022-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2022-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2022-03-30T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2022-03-30T05:00:00+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/1ab8ce0e-4e28-4e00-9c0a-3c38401bf522`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).