---
type: "Bill"
title: "Pat Harrison Waterway District; provide county withdrawal from district not effective until close of FY in which county obligations met."
description: "Pat Harrison Waterway District; provide county withdrawal from district not effective until close of FY in which county obligations met."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 538"
citation: "Mississippi HB 538 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Accountability", "Efficiency", "Transparency", "Conservation and Water Resources"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Turner"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-01-13T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2023-03-21T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/45d1f2fe-32ef-4722-8a25-fcf7f529d4ad"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2023/pdf/House_authors/Ladner.xml"
source_hash: "cbc4e0f854ff0fd19600be82e9ec0054b61d3187d7bc26770751ab5cefb03b45"
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 538 (2023) — Pat Harrison Waterway District; provide county withdrawal from district not effective until close of FY in which county obligations met.

## 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/0500-0599/HB0538IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/pdf/sam/HB0538_S_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 538** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB0538.pdf)
4. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/HB/0500-0599/HB0538PS.htm)
5. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/HB/0500-0599/HB0538SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **111–4** (pass) · lower
- Concurrence in Amendment From Senate — **110–5** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **52–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Turner — primary (person)
- Ladner — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-13T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency;Conservation and Water Resources `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-19T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: AC To CR
- **2023-01-26T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: CR To AC
- **2023-01-26T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-07T06:00:00+00:00** Read the Third Time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-09T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2023-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2023-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-28T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-08T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2023-03-08T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2023-03-09T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2023-03-14T05:00:00+00:00** Concurred in Amend From Senate
- **2023-03-15T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2023-03-16T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2023-03-21T05:00:00+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/45d1f2fe-32ef-4722-8a25-fcf7f529d4ad`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).