---
type: "Bill"
title: "Real Estate Brokers License; revise the requirements to be granted such a license."
description: "Real Estate Brokers License; revise the requirements to be granted such a license."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 1212"
citation: "Mississippi HB 1212 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Judiciary A", "Business and Financial Institutions"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["White"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-17T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2020-06-25T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c7698b09-2604-46d2-8e5f-867ab771dd9b"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2020/pdf/House_authors/Aguirre.xml"
source_hash: "c4f96a4ba37c35fb68ca953f63def1d34a65edddd8f2ff5f1ec46e8f9becf381"
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 1212 (2020) — Real Estate Brokers License; revise the requirements to be granted such a license.

## 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/2020/html/HB/1200-1299/HB1212IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 (Adopted)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/pdf/ham/HB1212_H_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **Amendment No 2 (Adopted)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/pdf/ham/HB1212_H_Amend_02.pdf)
4. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/HB/1200-1299/HB1212PS.htm)
5. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/HB/1200-1299/HB1212SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage as Amended — **104–16** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **43–3** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- White — primary (person)
- Aguirre — cosponsor (person)
- Bain — cosponsor (person)
- Barnett — cosponsor (person)
- Beckett — cosponsor (person)
- Bell (21st) — cosponsor (person)
- Bounds — cosponsor (person)
- Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Burnett — cosponsor (person)
- Calvert — cosponsor (person)
- Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
- Creekmore IV — cosponsor (person)
- Deweese — cosponsor (person)
- Eure — cosponsor (person)
- Evans (45th) — cosponsor (person)
- Felsher — cosponsor (person)
- Ford (54th) — cosponsor (person)
- Ford (73rd) — cosponsor (person)
- Hale — cosponsor (person)
- Hood — cosponsor (person)
- Horan — cosponsor (person)
- Hudson — cosponsor (person)
- Lamar — cosponsor (person)
- Mangold — cosponsor (person)
- Massengill — cosponsor (person)
- McGee — cosponsor (person)
- McLean — cosponsor (person)
- Mims — cosponsor (person)
- Newman — cosponsor (person)
- Oliver — cosponsor (person)
- Sanford — cosponsor (person)
- Scoggin — cosponsor (person)
- Shanks — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Steverson — cosponsor (person)
- Yancey — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary A `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-27T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-10T05:00:00+00:00** Tabled Subject To Call
- **2020-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2020-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2020-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2020-05-11T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Business and Financial Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-01T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-06-11T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2020-06-12T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2020-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2020-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2020-06-25T05:00:00+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/c7698b09-2604-46d2-8e5f-867ab771dd9b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).