---
type: "Bill"
title: "Homestead exemption; provide additional exemption for unremarried surviving spouses of certain veterans."
description: "Homestead exemption; provide additional exemption for unremarried surviving spouses of certain veterans."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 812"
citation: "Mississippi HB 812 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Finance", "Ways and Means"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Remak"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-16T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-28T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fdcd3504-0618-4966-add6-fe1d88b383e6"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2025/pdf/House_authors/Byrd.xml"
source_hash: "928087259b56c5bcb9ad34e6a36d7a7b07ee21a516fbc4750a8e42663969eee6"
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 812 (2025) — Homestead exemption; provide additional exemption for unremarried surviving spouses of certain veterans.

## 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/0800-0899/HB0812IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/ham/HB0812_H_Amend_01.htm)
3. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/0800-0899/HB0812PS.htm)
4. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/0800-0899/HB0812SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage as Amended — **120–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **51–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Remak — primary (person)
- Byrd — cosponsor (person)
- Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
- Hale — cosponsor (person)
- Hall — cosponsor (person)
- Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Kinkade — cosponsor (person)
- Pigott — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-25T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-26T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-26T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2025-02-28T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2025-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-19T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2025-03-20T05:00:00+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/fdcd3504-0618-4966-add6-fe1d88b383e6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).