---
type: "Bill"
title: "Memorial highways; designate in Jones and Lee Counties."
description: "Memorial highways; designate in Jones and Lee Counties."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 724"
citation: "Mississippi HB 724 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Transportation", "Appropriations", "Highways and Transportation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Staples"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-17T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-03-15T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/16ee5082-9228-4000-8d81-f32906cafaba"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2019/pdf/House_authors/Boyd.xml"
source_hash: "b65a4e5eeb373683c23a7841f1a4b3ec512105d34c1294f4a5054d330c47ece7"
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 724 (2019) — Memorial highways; designate in Jones and Lee Counties.

## 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/2019/html/HB/0700-0799/HB0724IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 (Cmte Sub) (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/pdf/ham/HB0724_H_(Cmte_Sub)_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/HB/0700-0799/HB0724PS.htm)
4. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/HB/0700-0799/HB0724CS.htm)
5. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/HB/0700-0799/HB0724SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage as Amended — **116–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **52–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Staples — primary (person)
- Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Scoggin — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-17T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Transportation;Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-30T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPCS: TR To AP
- **2019-01-31T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPCS: AP To TR
- **2019-01-31T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-07T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2019-02-07T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2019-02-07T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2019-02-08T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2019-02-26T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Highways and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-05T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2019-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2019-03-08T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2019-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2019-03-15T05:00:00+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/16ee5082-9228-4000-8d81-f32906cafaba`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).