---
type: "Bill"
title: "Commissioner of Insurance; authorize to implement a state insurance exchange, authorize income tax deductions and insurance premium tax credit."
description: "Commissioner of Insurance; authorize to implement a state insurance exchange, authorize income tax deductions and insurance premium tax credit."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 1647"
citation: "Mississippi HB 1647 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Finance", "Ways and Means"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lamar"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 24
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-02-19T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-05-14T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6d21b225-10b8-48a9-8cad-fdb7650bc10d"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2024/pdf/House_authors/Lamar.xml"
source_hash: "e56af8a9c3f8fa3688e27136a5edc8f029333205d2bc73673b2070a3dcb9dc76"
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 1647 (2024) — Commissioner of Insurance; authorize to implement a state insurance exchange, authorize income tax deductions and insurance premium tax credit.

## 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/1600-1699/HB1647IN.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/HB1647_S_Amend_01_to_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 1647** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB1647.pdf)
4. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/HB/1600-1699/HB1647PS.htm)
5. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/pdf/sam/HB1647_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
6. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/HB/1600-1699/HB1647CS.htm)
7. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/HB/1600-1699/HB1647SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage as Amended — **38–14** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **118–3** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **42–9** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **111–6** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Lamar — primary (person)
- White — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-27T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-28T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2024-02-28T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2024-02-29T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2024-03-22T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Finance `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`
- **2024-04-12T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2024-04-16T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2024-04-17T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Lamar,Steverson,Zuber
- **2024-04-18T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Harkins,Michel,Polk
- **2024-04-29T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2024-04-29T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2024-04-30T05:00:00+00:00** Recommitted For Further Conf
- **2024-04-30T05:00:00+00:00** Recommitted For Further Conf
- **2024-05-01T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2024-05-01T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2024-05-02T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2024-05-02T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2024-05-06T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-05-06T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-05-14T05:00:00+00:00** Law W/out Governor's Signature `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6d21b225-10b8-48a9-8cad-fdb7650bc10d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).