---
type: "Bill"
title: "Community and junior colleges; authorize to administer certain construction and maintenance contracts and exempt from DFA oversight."
description: "Community and junior colleges; authorize to administer certain construction and maintenance contracts and exempt from DFA oversight."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 13"
citation: "Mississippi HB 13 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Accountability", "Efficiency", "Transparency"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lamar"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 15
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-10T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-28T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6086db37-6fc5-4545-86dd-b10834da5c05"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2025/pdf/House_authors/Lamar.xml"
source_hash: "5997d4f3f8fd68828b3577df5f79391276da10f7997dd8c3d448944289d56284"
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 13 (2025) — Community and junior colleges; authorize to administer certain construction and maintenance contracts and exempt from DFA oversight.

## 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/0001-0099/HB0013IN.htm)
2. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 13** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB0013.pdf)
3. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/0001-0099/HB0013PS.htm)
4. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/0001-0099/HB0013SG.htm)
5. **Substitute No 1 for Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/sam/HB0013_S_Subst_1_for_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)

## Votes

- Passage — **113–3** (pass) · lower
- Concurrence in Amendment From Senate — **119–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **48–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Lamar — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-10T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-30T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered (Scoggin, Ford (54th), Porter)
- **2025-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Tabled
- **2025-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2025-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2025-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2025-03-19T05:00:00+00:00** Concurred in Amend From Senate
- **2025-03-21T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-03-21T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-03-28T05:00:00+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/6086db37-6fc5-4545-86dd-b10834da5c05`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).