---
type: "Bill"
title: "MS State Oil and Gas Board; remove from the provisions of the MS Budget Transparency and Simplification Act."
description: "MS State Oil and Gas Board; remove from the provisions of the MS Budget Transparency and Simplification Act."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 740"
citation: "Mississippi HB 740 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bounds"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 21
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-01-17T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-04-16T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/486a239d-a0a7-4e61-9e50-be3b31bf0cd7"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2019/pdf/House_authors/Bounds.xml"
source_hash: "e24b8ed3eff96fe3266f7c16f9c80b061ca2190223bce5eeafd2db41fbfbbec3"
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 740 (2019) — MS State Oil and Gas Board; remove from the provisions of the MS Budget Transparency and Simplification Act.

## 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/HB0740IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 (Cmte Sub) (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/pdf/ham/HB0740_H_(Cmte_Sub)_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 740** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB0740.pdf)
4. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/HB/0700-0799/HB0740PS.htm)
5. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/pdf/sam/HB0740_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
6. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/HB/0700-0799/HB0740CS.htm)
7. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/HB/0700-0799/HB0740SG.htm)

## Votes

- Adopt Conference Report — **106–3** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **115–2** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **51–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **52–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bounds — primary (person)
- Staples — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-17T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **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`
- **2019-02-27T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-05T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2019-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2019-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2019-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2019-03-19T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Read,Bounds,Staples
- **2019-03-22T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Clarke,Branning,Wilemon
- **2019-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2019-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2019-03-29T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2019-03-29T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2019-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2019-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2019-04-16T05:00:00+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/486a239d-a0a7-4e61-9e50-be3b31bf0cd7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).