---
type: "Bill"
title: "The Safe Solicitation Act; create to regulate issuance of solicitation permits."
description: "The Safe Solicitation Act; create to regulate issuance of solicitation permits."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1197"
citation: "Mississippi HB 1197 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Judiciary A", "Judiciary", "Division A"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Yates"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-20T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-21T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e3a77188-2c77-4cae-ac12-c7b2d982f58f"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2025/pdf/House_authors/Bell_(65th).xml"
source_hash: "a89fb6b69df64a55e85e92486befa0454f2186563dcee54af1eefa5aa1cee81d"
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 1197 (2025) — The Safe Solicitation Act; create to regulate issuance of solicitation permits.

## 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/2025/html/HB/1100-1199/HB1197IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 (Cmte Sub) (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/ham/HB1197_H_(Cmte_Sub)_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/1100-1199/HB1197PS.htm)
4. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/1100-1199/HB1197CS.htm)
5. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/1100-1199/HB1197SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **39–12** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **81–30** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Yates — primary (person)
- Bell (65th) — cosponsor (person)
- Butler-Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Crudup — cosponsor (person)
- Felsher — cosponsor (person)
- Ford (73rd) — cosponsor (person)
- Foster — cosponsor (person)
- Gibbs (72nd) — cosponsor (person)
- Mansell — cosponsor (person)
- McMillan — cosponsor (person)
- Nelson — cosponsor (person)
- Newman — cosponsor (person)
- Powell — cosponsor (person)
- Shanks — cosponsor (person)
- Varner — cosponsor (person)
- Wallace — cosponsor (person)
- Yancey — cosponsor (person)
- Zuber — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-20T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary A `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-28T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-30T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2025-01-30T06:00:00+00:00** Tabled Subject To Call
- **2025-02-05T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-05T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2025-02-07T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2025-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary, Division A `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2025-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-03-21T05:00:00+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/e3a77188-2c77-4cae-ac12-c7b2d982f58f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).