---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Veterans Affairs Board; revise provisions regarding processing of claims."
description: "State Veterans Affairs Board; revise provisions regarding processing of claims."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 978"
citation: "Mississippi HB 978 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Military Affairs", "Veterans and Military Affairs"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Carpenter"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-06T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-04-17T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b0a91444-c873-446b-9e3b-dd40564b031f"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2024/pdf/House_authors/Carpenter.xml"
source_hash: "1eed51eb7a36a17df57310f5eb8163b56f5175fa2300be7c694952ae47d9e472"
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 978 (2024) — State Veterans Affairs Board; revise provisions regarding processing of claims.

## 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/0900-0999/HB0978IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/HB/0900-0999/HB0978PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/HB/0900-0999/HB0978SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **121–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **51–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Carpenter — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-06T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Military Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-28T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2024-03-21T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Veterans and Military Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-01T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2024-04-03T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-04T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2024-04-08T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-04-09T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-04-17T05:00:00+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/b0a91444-c873-446b-9e3b-dd40564b031f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).