---
type: "Bill"
title: "Mississippi Fully Autonomous Vehicle Enabling (MS FAVE) Act of 2023; establish to regulate operation of autonomous vehicle on public roads."
description: "Mississippi Fully Autonomous Vehicle Enabling (MS FAVE) Act of 2023; establish to regulate operation of autonomous vehicle on public roads."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1003"
citation: "Mississippi HB 1003 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Highways and Transportation", "Transportation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Busby"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 15
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-01-16T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2023-03-28T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8d38fe87-80cd-4e73-b1fd-3460c3d432eb"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2023/pdf/House_authors/Busby.xml"
source_hash: "2abe1be576f32015426d723616695fc1d9169845b529e1a716e48f0ef935be40"
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 1003 (2023) — Mississippi Fully Autonomous Vehicle Enabling (MS FAVE) Act of 2023; establish to regulate operation of autonomous vehicle on public roads.

## 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/2023/html/HB/1000-1099/HB1003IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 to Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/pdf/sam/HB1003_S_Amend_01_to_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 1003** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB1003.pdf)
4. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/HB/1000-1099/HB1003PS.htm)
5. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/pdf/sam/HB1003_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
6. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/HB/1000-1099/HB1003CS.htm)
7. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/HB/1000-1099/HB1003SG.htm)

## Votes

- Concurrence in Amendment From Senate — **113–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **41–9** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **111–4** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-26T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-08T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2023-02-08T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2023-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2023-02-14T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Highways and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-22T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-08T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2023-03-08T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2023-03-08T06:00:00+00:00** Immediate Release
- **2023-03-09T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2023-03-21T05:00:00+00:00** Concurred in Amend From Senate
- **2023-03-23T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2023-03-23T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2023-03-28T05:00:00+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/8d38fe87-80cd-4e73-b1fd-3460c3d432eb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).