---
type: "Bill"
title: "MS Community Heritage Preservation Grant Fund; transfer administration from DFA to Archives and History."
description: "MS Community Heritage Preservation Grant Fund; transfer administration from DFA to Archives and History."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 918"
citation: "Mississippi HB 918 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations", "Appropriations A"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lamar"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-17T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-13T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b45a5fd3-f129-4f02-ad55-423e0150706b"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2025/pdf/House_authors/Lamar.xml"
source_hash: "51130fec45b1267ff019c0f4c6e0146864e859089c978b8d1a6a82bff6251850"
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 918 (2025) — MS Community Heritage Preservation Grant Fund; transfer administration from DFA to Archives and History.

## 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/0900-0999/HB0918IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/0900-0999/HB0918PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/0900-0999/HB0918SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **119–1** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **49–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Lamar — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-17T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Appropriations A `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-30T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-06T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-07T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2025-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-27T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2025-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-03-10T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-03-13T05:00:00+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/b45a5fd3-f129-4f02-ad55-423e0150706b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).