---
type: "Bill"
title: "Tourism; provide assistance to destination marketing organizations and other entities."
description: "Tourism; provide assistance to destination marketing organizations and other entities."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 419"
citation: "Mississippi HB 419 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations", "Tourism"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Currie"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 30
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-01-12T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2023-04-21T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8e43e75e-acc6-43a2-aacc-689008461ca6"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2023/pdf/House_authors/Currie.xml"
source_hash: "5c75badcbcb33820c75222079f0e476c560cddb8f3eb6064d3b3b08abb9b9da0"
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 419 (2023) — Tourism; provide assistance to destination marketing organizations and other entities.

## 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/0400-0499/HB0419IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/pdf/ham/HB0419_H_Amend_01.htm)
3. **Amendment No 1 to Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/pdf/sam/HB0419_S_Amend_01_to_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
4. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 419** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB0419.pdf)
5. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/HB/0400-0499/HB0419PS.htm)
6. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/pdf/sam/HB0419_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
7. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/HB/0400-0499/HB0419SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage as Amended — **52–0** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **111–7** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **52–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **112–5** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **99–12** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Currie — primary (person)
- Felsher — cosponsor (person)
- Hulum — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-12T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Tourism;Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-25T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: TO To AP
- **2023-01-31T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: AP To TO
- **2023-01-31T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-06T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2023-02-06T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2023-02-08T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2023-02-14T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Tourism;Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-21T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: TO To AP
- **2023-02-28T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPAA: AP To TO
- **2023-02-28T06:00:00+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`
- **2023-03-10T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2023-03-14T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2023-03-21T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Currie,Barton,Oliver
- **2023-03-24T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Chassaniol,Hopson,Boyd
- **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** Conference Report Adopted
- **2023-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Recommitted For Further Conf
- **2023-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Reconsidered
- **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
- **2023-04-03T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2023-04-04T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2023-04-21T05:00:00+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/8e43e75e-acc6-43a2-aacc-689008461ca6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).