---
type: "Bill"
title: "BEAM; prohibit from accepting gifts or other benefits from any broadband service provider, vendor, or contractor."
description: "BEAM; prohibit from accepting gifts or other benefits from any broadband service provider, vendor, or contractor."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 1471"
citation: "Mississippi HB 1471 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Energy", "Public Utilities"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Powell"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-02-19T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-04-30T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/48d2a3b0-9833-4585-a08c-1542a6862d56"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2024/pdf/House_authors/Powell.xml"
source_hash: "2f000e835cc85da90f5bb0bbd50580eb5c51eb721147400a8555af09060a6d6f"
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 1471 (2024) — BEAM; prohibit from accepting gifts or other benefits from any broadband service provider, vendor, or contractor.

## 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/2024/html/HB/1400-1499/HB1471IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 to Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/pdf/sam/HB1471_S_Amend_01_to_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 1471** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB1471.pdf)
4. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/HB/1400-1499/HB1471PS.htm)
5. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/pdf/sam/HB1471_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
6. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/HB/1400-1499/HB1471SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage as Amended — **52–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **120–0** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **51–0** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **117–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Powell — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Public Utilities `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-29T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-08T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2024-03-19T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Energy `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2024-04-10T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2024-04-10T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2024-04-10T05:00:00+00:00** Immediate Release
- **2024-04-11T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2024-04-12T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2024-04-15T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Powell,Lancaster,Steverson
- **2024-04-15T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Carter,Williams,McMahan
- **2024-04-17T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2024-04-17T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2024-04-18T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2024-04-22T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2024-04-26T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-04-26T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-04-30T05:00:00+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/48d2a3b0-9833-4585-a08c-1542a6862d56`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).