---
type: "Bill"
title: "City of Lucedale; authorize election for tax on hotels/motels to fund parks and recreational capital improvement projects."
description: "City of Lucedale; authorize election for tax on hotels/motels to fund parks and recreational capital improvement projects."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 1744"
citation: "Mississippi HB 1744 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Finance", "Local and Private", "Local and Private Legislation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lott"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-28T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-04-25T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/23dedb48-c070-4622-9581-5c0a86d1e44e"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2024/pdf/House_authors/Lott.xml"
source_hash: "44673e1a3d06986096048e8a5a8b91823560a579e8b896d867a8d57ee6cb1395"
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 1744 (2024) — City of Lucedale; authorize election for tax on hotels/motels to fund parks and recreational capital improvement projects.

## 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/1700-1799/HB1744IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/HB/1700-1799/HB1744PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/HB/1700-1799/HB1744SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **117–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **51–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Lott — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-28T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Local and Private Legislation `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-06T06:00:00+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`
- **2024-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Local and Private;Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-09T05:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPAA: LP To FI
- **2024-04-11T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2024-04-18T05:00:00+00:00** Amendment Failed `amendment-failure`
- **2024-04-18T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-19T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2024-04-22T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-04-23T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-04-25T05:00:00+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/23dedb48-c070-4622-9581-5c0a86d1e44e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).