---
type: "Bill"
title: "Office of Workforce Development; revise funding mechanism for and revise powers and duties of."
description: "Office of Workforce Development; revise funding mechanism for and revise powers and duties of."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 588"
citation: "Mississippi HB 588 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Economic and Workforce Development", "Workforce Development"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Roberson"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 20
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-01-16T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2023-04-20T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5b6189db-6023-4b0b-a797-7e4136a6b5e0"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2023/pdf/House_authors/Roberson.xml"
source_hash: "c84fa5076c291b319cb16255a39d772e083a39932e9cfc45a55a24091f7a917d"
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 588 (2023) — Office of Workforce Development; revise funding mechanism for and revise powers and duties of.

## 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/HB0588IN.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/HB0588_S_Amend_01_to_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **Amendment No 2 to Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/pdf/sam/HB0588_S_Amend_02_to_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
4. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 588** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB0588.pdf)
5. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/HB/0500-0599/HB0588PS.htm)
6. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/pdf/sam/HB0588_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
7. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/HB/0500-0599/HB0588SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **112–5** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **52–0** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **110–5** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **52–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Roberson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Workforce Development `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-24T06:00:00+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`
- **2023-02-14T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Economic and Workforce Development `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-23T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2023-03-07T06:00:00+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
- **2023-03-15T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Bell (21st),White,Ford (73rd)
- **2023-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Parker,Younger,England
- **2023-03-21T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Bell (21st),Felsher,Ford (73rd)
- **2023-03-24T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2023-03-24T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2023-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2023-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2023-03-31T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2023-03-31T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2023-04-20T05:00:00+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/5b6189db-6023-4b0b-a797-7e4136a6b5e0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).