---
type: "Bill"
title: "Municipal ordinance for granting of utility franchises or use of streets; remove municipal approval of."
description: "Municipal ordinance for granting of utility franchises or use of streets; remove municipal approval of."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1211"
citation: "Mississippi HB 1211 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Municipalities", "Public Utilities"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Powell"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-20T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-06T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/96fd6c3d-2ae6-4b89-bdea-35263a3d658a"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2025/pdf/House_authors/Powell.xml"
source_hash: "fbf7f702e208045925ee4be41f7f0dc0645f52a93c16f1491a6f75c9055ed3a4"
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 1211 (2025) — Municipal ordinance for granting of utility franchises or use of streets; remove municipal approval of.

## 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/1200-1299/HB1211IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/1200-1299/HB1211PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/1200-1299/HB1211SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **50–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **116–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Powell — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-20T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Public Utilities;Municipalities `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-30T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: PU To MU
- **2025-02-04T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: MU To PU
- **2025-02-04T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2025-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Municipalities `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-03T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2025-03-05T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-03-06T06:00:00+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/96fd6c3d-2ae6-4b89-bdea-35263a3d658a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).