---
type: "Bill"
title: "Oil and gas severance taxes; extend repealer on lower rate for production from horizontally drilled wells."
description: "Oil and gas severance taxes; extend repealer on lower rate for production from horizontally drilled wells."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 383"
citation: "Mississippi HB 383 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Energy", "Finance", "Ways and Means"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Powell"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-01-10T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2023-03-10T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/589440f7-5ace-4cd9-b7b1-bb6857735efc"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2023/pdf/House_authors/Brown_(20th).xml"
source_hash: "5cb4055ae8e5db07167d02cb3df17916f200f018009ac4ddc4d1b81de26f2be6"
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 383 (2023) — Oil and gas severance taxes; extend repealer on lower rate for production from horizontally drilled wells.

## 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/0300-0399/HB0383IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/HB/0300-0399/HB0383PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/HB/0300-0399/HB0383SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **52–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **118–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Powell — primary (person)
- Brown (20th) — cosponsor (person)
- Cockerham — cosponsor (person)
- Hopkins — cosponsor (person)
- Mims — cosponsor (person)
- Sanford — cosponsor (person)
- Williamson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-10T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Energy;Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-25T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: EN To WM
- **2023-01-25T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: WM To EN
- **2023-01-26T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-07T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2023-02-08T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2023-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-23T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-02T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2023-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2023-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2023-03-08T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2023-03-10T06:00:00+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/589440f7-5ace-4cd9-b7b1-bb6857735efc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).