---
type: "Bill"
title: "Hunting and fishing on another's land; revise provisions relating to payment of restitution."
description: "Hunting and fishing on another's land; revise provisions relating to payment of restitution."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1637"
citation: "Mississippi HB 1637 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Judiciary B", "Judiciary", "Division B", "Wildlife", "Fisheries and Parks"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kinkade"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-20T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-18T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/036a7778-5986-47ce-9904-3ca799790b32"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2025/pdf/House_authors/Kinkade.xml"
source_hash: "cf8dd77b64e99099da73e8668dbade02365a4c15de5bead22face4a0675c5e90"
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 1637 (2025) — Hunting and fishing on another's land; revise provisions relating to payment of restitution.

## 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/1600-1699/HB1637IN.htm)
2. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 1637** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB1637.pdf)
3. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/1600-1699/HB1637PS.htm)
4. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/ham/HB1637_H_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
5. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/1600-1699/HB1637SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage as Amended — **46–4** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **97–17** (pass) · lower
- Concurrence in Amendment From Senate — **117–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kinkade — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-20T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks;Judiciary B `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-29T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPAA: WI To JB
- **2025-01-30T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPAA: JB To WI
- **2025-01-30T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Read the Third Time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2025-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2025-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks;Judiciary, Division B `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPAA: WI To JB
- **2025-02-27T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2025-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2025-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Concurred in Amend From Senate
- **2025-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-03-18T05:00:00+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/036a7778-5986-47ce-9904-3ca799790b32`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).