---
type: "Bill"
title: "County veteran service officers; revise certain qualifications for."
description: "County veteran service officers; revise certain qualifications for."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 677"
citation: "Mississippi HB 677 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Military Affairs", "Veterans and Military Affairs"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Carpenter"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-01-16T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2023-04-17T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/65bafdd0-930b-46a4-9446-05a9ed746f96"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2023/pdf/House_authors/Arnold.xml"
source_hash: "70ba80182ce49e79afcbca0c75be45a7f58ef49a25947362dbf79d1b6e9c4376"
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 677 (2023) — County veteran service officers; revise certain qualifications for.

## 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/0600-0699/HB0677IN.htm)
2. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 677** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB0677.pdf)
3. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/HB/0600-0699/HB0677PS.htm)
4. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/pdf/sam/HB0677_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
5. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/HB/0600-0699/HB0677SG.htm)

## Votes

- Adopt Conference Report — **117–0** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **52–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **116–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **52–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Carpenter — primary (person)
- Arnold — cosponsor (person)
- Byrd — cosponsor (person)
- Hopkins — cosponsor (person)
- Karriem — cosponsor (person)
- Stamps — cosponsor (person)
- Tullos — cosponsor (person)
- Williamson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Military Affairs `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`
- **2023-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Veterans and Military Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-20T06:00:00+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`
- **2023-03-09T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2023-03-14T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2023-03-22T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Carpenter,Newman,Hulum
- **2023-03-23T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Seymour,McMahan,Chassaniol
- **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
- **2023-03-29T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2023-03-29T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2023-04-17T05:00:00+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/65bafdd0-930b-46a4-9446-05a9ed746f96`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).