---
type: "Bill"
title: "Memorial highway; designate a segment of U.S. Highway 49 North as Colonel Donnel Berry."
description: "Memorial highway; designate a segment of U.S. Highway 49 North as Colonel Donnel Berry."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 1402"
citation: "Mississippi HB 1402 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Highways and Transportation", "Transportation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James-Jones"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-01-16T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2026-03-13T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a145aaf4-272b-4574-8a10-0bb698c196c3"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2026/pdf/House_authors/Aguirre.xml"
source_hash: "97e10cb46c4de6586b1fc02a425738814e18d7d67991999678ac5876163e4790"
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 1402 (2026) — Memorial highway; designate a segment of U.S. Highway 49 North as Colonel Donnel Berry.

## 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/2026/html/HB/1400-1499/HB1402IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2026/html/HB/1400-1499/HB1402PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2026/html/HB/1400-1499/HB1402SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **121–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **51–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- James-Jones — primary (person)
- Aguirre — cosponsor (person)
- Anderson (110th) — cosponsor (person)
- Anderson (122nd) — cosponsor (person)
- Anthony — cosponsor (person)
- Arnold — cosponsor (person)
- Bailey (23rd) — cosponsor (person)
- Bailey (49th) — cosponsor (person)
- Banks — cosponsor (person)
- Barnett — cosponsor (person)
- Barton — cosponsor (person)
- Bell (21st) — cosponsor (person)
- Bell (65th) — cosponsor (person)
- Bennett — cosponsor (person)
- Blackmon — cosponsor (person)
- Blackwell — cosponsor (person)
- Bounds — cosponsor (person)
- Boyd (19th) — cosponsor (person)
- Boyd (37th) — cosponsor (person)
- Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Burch — cosponsor (person)
- Burnett — cosponsor (person)
- Butler-Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Byrd — cosponsor (person)
- Calvert — cosponsor (person)
- Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
- Clark — cosponsor (person)
- Cockerham — cosponsor (person)
- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
- Creekmore IV — cosponsor (person)
- Crosby — cosponsor (person)
- Crudup — cosponsor (person)
- Currie — cosponsor (person)
- Denton — cosponsor (person)
- Deweese — cosponsor (person)
- Elliott — cosponsor (person)
- Estrada — cosponsor (person)
- Eubanks — cosponsor (person)
- Eure — cosponsor (person)
- Evans — cosponsor (person)
- Faulkner — cosponsor (person)
- Felsher — cosponsor (person)
- Fondren — cosponsor (person)
- Ford (54th) — cosponsor (person)
- Ford (73rd) — cosponsor (person)
- Foster — cosponsor (person)
- Gibbs (36th) — cosponsor (person)
- Gibbs (72nd) — cosponsor (person)
- Grady — cosponsor (person)
- Guice — cosponsor (person)
- Hale — cosponsor (person)
- Hall — cosponsor (person)
- Haney — cosponsor (person)
- Harness — cosponsor (person)
- Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Hawkins — cosponsor (person)
- Hines — cosponsor (person)
- Hobgood-Wilkes — cosponsor (person)
- Holloway (27th) — cosponsor (person)
- Holloway (76th) — cosponsor (person)
- Hood — cosponsor (person)
- Horan — cosponsor (person)
- Horne — cosponsor (person)
- Hulum — cosponsor (person)
- Hurst — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson (11th) — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson (45th) — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Karriem — cosponsor (person)
- Keen — cosponsor (person)
- Kinkade — cosponsor (person)
- Ladner — cosponsor (person)
- Lamar — cosponsor (person)
- Lott — cosponsor (person)
- Mangold — cosponsor (person)
- Mansell — cosponsor (person)
- Massengill — cosponsor (person)
- Mattox — cosponsor (person)
- McCarty — cosponsor (person)
- McCray — cosponsor (person)
- McGee — cosponsor (person)
- McKnight — cosponsor (person)
- McLean — cosponsor (person)
- McMillan — cosponsor (person)
- Mickens — cosponsor (person)
- Mims — cosponsor (person)
- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
- Nelson — cosponsor (person)
- Newman — cosponsor (person)
- Oliver — cosponsor (person)
- Osborne — cosponsor (person)
- Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Pigott — cosponsor (person)
- Porter — cosponsor (person)
- Powell — cosponsor (person)
- Read — cosponsor (person)
- Remak — cosponsor (person)
- Roberson — cosponsor (person)
- Rosebud — cosponsor (person)
- Rushing — cosponsor (person)
- Sanders — cosponsor (person)
- Sanford — cosponsor (person)
- Scoggin — cosponsor (person)
- Scott — cosponsor (person)
- Shanks — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Steverson — cosponsor (person)
- Summers — cosponsor (person)
- Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Tubb — cosponsor (person)
- Tullos — cosponsor (person)
- Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Varner — cosponsor (person)
- Waldo — cosponsor (person)
- Wallace — cosponsor (person)
- Watson — cosponsor (person)
- White — cosponsor (person)
- Williams — cosponsor (person)
- Yancey — cosponsor (person)
- Yates — cosponsor (person)
- Zuber — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-02T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Read the Third Time `reading-3`
- **2026-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2026-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2026-02-16T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Highways and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-25T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2026-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2026-03-05T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2026-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2026-03-09T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2026-03-13T05:00:00+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/a145aaf4-272b-4574-8a10-0bb698c196c3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).