---
type: "Bill"
title: "Agencies; delete provision that contractual obligations of shall be considered as incurred in fiscal period to be paid."
description: "Agencies; delete provision that contractual obligations of shall be considered as incurred in fiscal period to be paid."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 980"
citation: "Mississippi HB 980 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Read"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-01-21T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-04-18T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c7ad5789-8377-4c34-93a0-3194279ce8b1"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2019/pdf/House_authors/Read.xml"
source_hash: "b94933eec7777ed7d86755cd751c31c8d82f1b864cddf7ac21c0b225ea6d51f7"
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 980 (2019) — Agencies; delete provision that contractual obligations of shall be considered as incurred in fiscal period to be paid.

## 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/0900-0999/HB0980IN.htm)
2. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 980** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB0980.pdf)
3. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/HB/0900-0999/HB0980PS.htm)
4. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/pdf/sam/HB0980_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
5. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/HB/0900-0999/HB0980CS.htm)
6. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/HB/0900-0999/HB0980SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage as Amended — **50–2** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **116–0** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **114–0** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **51–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Read — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-21T06:00:00+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** Passed `passage`
- **2019-02-08T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2019-02-26T06:00:00+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,Huddleston,Denny
- **2019-03-22T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Clarke,Wiggins,Frazier
- **2019-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2019-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2019-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2019-03-28T05:00:00+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
- **2019-04-18T05:00:00+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/c7ad5789-8377-4c34-93a0-3194279ce8b1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).