---
type: "Bill"
title: "Surplus property; certain purchases of from Legislature are not violations of ethics laws."
description: "Surplus property; certain purchases of from Legislature are not violations of ethics laws."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "20251E"
identifier: "HB 47"
citation: "Mississippi HB 47 (20251E)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations", "Appropriations A"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Read"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-05-28T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-06-17T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3a7360fc-f379-4827-96f4-0902a9fe01fd"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/20251E/pdf/House_authors/Read.xml"
source_hash: "e7a66e5c0ffeb6d0ac8ae93a695273192b0a228ad4efc9b13a41efbb12a189af"
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 47 (20251E) — Surplus property; certain purchases of from Legislature are not violations of ethics laws.

## 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/20251E/html/HB/0001-0099/HB0047IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/20251E/html/HB/0001-0099/HB0047PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/20251E/html/HB/0001-0099/HB0047SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **36–2** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **92–6** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Read — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-28T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Appropriations A `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-28T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-05-28T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2025-05-28T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered
- **2025-05-29T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Tabled
- **2025-05-29T05:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2025-05-29T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-29T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-05-29T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2025-05-29T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2025-05-30T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-05-30T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-06-17T05:00:00+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/3a7360fc-f379-4827-96f4-0902a9fe01fd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).