---
type: "Bill"
title: "Disaster assistance; increase amount of funds MEMA may request to provide and create loan program for local governments to receive."
description: "Disaster assistance; increase amount of funds MEMA may request to provide and create loan program for local governments to receive."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 1646"
citation: "Mississippi HB 1646 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations", "Appropriations A", "State Affairs"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Deweese"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 23
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2026-01-19T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2026-04-06T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ad520ae3-0254-44b0-bbdb-79dad2b2b467"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2026/pdf/House_authors/Deweese.xml"
source_hash: "e15850d2f3f24b9c99957acbded168a1236d63bf26a92eba1576f612f0eb31d6"
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 1646 (2026) — Disaster assistance; increase amount of funds MEMA may request to provide and create loan program for local governments to receive.

## 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/1600-1699/HB1646IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 to Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2026/pdf/sam/HB1646_S_Amend_01_to_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 1646** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2026/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB1646.pdf)
4. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2026/html/HB/1600-1699/HB1646PS.htm)
5. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2026/pdf/sam/HB1646_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
6. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2026/html/HB/1600-1699/HB1646CS.htm)
7. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2026/html/HB/1600-1699/HB1646SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **120–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **52–0** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **52–0** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **121–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Deweese — primary (person)
- Hale — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-19T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To State Affairs;Appropriations A `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-03T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPCS: SA To AP
- **2026-02-03T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPCS: AP To SA
- **2026-02-03T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Read the Third Time `reading-3`
- **2026-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2026-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2026-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2026-02-20T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-03T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2026-03-10T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2026-03-10T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2026-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2026-03-23T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Zuber,Deweese,Clark
- **2026-03-23T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Hopson,DeBar,DeLano
- **2026-03-25T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2026-03-25T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2026-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2026-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2026-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2026-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2026-04-06T05:00:00+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/ad520ae3-0254-44b0-bbdb-79dad2b2b467`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).