---
type: "Bill"
title: "Municipal water, wastewater and sewer services; require equity based billing based on use of."
description: "Municipal water, wastewater and sewer services; require equity based billing based on use of."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 698"
citation: "Mississippi HB 698 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Energy", "Public Utilities"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Yates"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 27
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-01-16T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2023-04-14T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3b6fe4e0-4f99-4a81-9bc4-f1d86285e7f2"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2023/pdf/House_authors/Yates.xml"
source_hash: "b19eebb8277f9fe01df4e21ad604b70ea97343378cb4406a6344ed76f79d666d"
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 698 (2023) — Municipal water, wastewater and sewer services; require equity based billing based on use 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/0600-0699/HB0698IN.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/HB0698_S_Amend_01_to_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 698** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB0698.pdf)
4. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/HB/0600-0699/HB0698PS.htm)
5. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/pdf/sam/HB0698_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
6. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/HB/0600-0699/HB0698SG.htm)

## Votes

- Adopt Conference Report — **109–9** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **43–9** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **42–10** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **37–12** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **91–20** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **83–26** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Yates — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Public Utilities `referral-committee`
- **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 Energy `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-27T06:00:00+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 Bounds,Anderson (122nd),Yates
- **2023-03-21T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Carter,Michel,Parks
- **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** Conference Report Adopted
- **2023-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Reconsidered
- **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
- **2023-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2023-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2023-03-29T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2023-03-29T05:00:00+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
- **2023-04-14T05:00:00+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/3b6fe4e0-4f99-4a81-9bc4-f1d86285e7f2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).