---
type: "Bill"
title: "Congressional primaries; change time for holding in years without presidential election."
description: "Congressional primaries; change time for holding in years without presidential election."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 293"
citation: "Mississippi HB 293 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Apportionment and Elections", "Elections"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sanford"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 22
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-01-10T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-17T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c3318a23-d33b-414a-8abc-abbf5aae0058"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2025/pdf/House_authors/Sanford.xml"
source_hash: "f9adb32e4c0bf74b4141c033f6859571aa24345c71cb95f6bd03a8d898aa98e8"
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 293 (2025) — Congressional primaries; change time for holding in years without presidential election.

## 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/0200-0299/HB0293IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/ham/HB0293_H_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 293** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB0293.pdf)
4. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/0200-0299/HB0293PS.htm)
5. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/sam/HB0293_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
6. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/0200-0299/HB0293SG.htm)

## Votes

- Adopt Conference Report — **114–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **119–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **51–0** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **49–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Sanford — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-10T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Apportionment and Elections `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-23T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-05T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-05T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2025-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2025-02-14T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Elections `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-27T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-05T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-05T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2025-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2025-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2025-03-14T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Sanford,Tullos,James-Jones
- **2025-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named England,Blackwell,Blount
- **2025-03-31T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2025-03-31T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2025-04-01T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2025-04-01T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2025-04-01T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered (Sanford, Tullos)
- **2025-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Tabled
- **2025-04-07T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-04-07T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-04-17T05:00:00+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/c3318a23-d33b-414a-8abc-abbf5aae0058`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).