---
type: "Bill"
title: "Alcoholic beverages; revise provisions regarding certain permits and distance restrictions."
description: "Alcoholic beverages; revise provisions regarding certain permits and distance restrictions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 252"
citation: "Mississippi HB 252 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Tourism", "Ways and Means"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Roberson"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 23
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-01-05T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2023-04-19T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b9825e54-572d-4e83-8b53-c2a485fb6ab7"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2023/pdf/House_authors/Roberson.xml"
source_hash: "ff87c7e62e4ee42eb88472429e2e90b52f596426473c4d5255f50d5dda53cba0"
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 252 (2023) — Alcoholic beverages; revise provisions regarding certain permits and distance restrictions.

## 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/0200-0299/HB0252IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/pdf/sam/HB0252_S_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 252** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB0252.pdf)
4. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/HB/0200-0299/HB0252PS.htm)
5. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/HB/0200-0299/HB0252SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage as Amended — **52–0** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **46–6** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **106–7** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Roberson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-05T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-25T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-01T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2023-02-02T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2023-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Tourism `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-21T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-02T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2023-03-02T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2023-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2023-03-16T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2023-03-21T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Lamar,Steverson,Zuber
- **2023-03-24T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Chassaniol,Johnson,Thompson
- **2023-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2023-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2023-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Recommitted For Further Conf
- **2023-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Recommitted For Further Conf
- **2023-03-29T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2023-03-29T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2023-03-30T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2023-03-30T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2023-04-05T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2023-04-05T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2023-04-19T05:00:00+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/b9825e54-572d-4e83-8b53-c2a485fb6ab7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).