---
type: "Bill"
title: "Judicial districts; revise certain chancery and circuit."
description: "Judicial districts; revise certain chancery and circuit."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 1490"
citation: "Mississippi HB 1490 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Judiciary A", "Appropriations", "Judiciary", "Division A"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lamar"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 25
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2020-02-17T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2020-07-08T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2a616734-b928-4a40-ab77-58b117ba8d78"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2020/pdf/House_authors/Lamar.xml"
source_hash: "c54a6776e3f5c9a9fb4ea3e33de52431e9465611431f83647d84fe0310c3ec88"
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 1490 (2020) — Judicial districts; revise certain chancery and circuit.

## 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/1400-1499/HB1490IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 to Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/pdf/sam/HB1490_S_Amend_01_to_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **Amendment No 2 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/pdf/ham/HB1490_H_Amend_02.pdf)
4. **Amendment No 2 to Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/pdf/sam/HB1490_S_Amend_02_to_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
5. **Amendment No 3 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/pdf/ham/HB1490_H_Amend_03.pdf)
6. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 1490** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB1490.pdf)
7. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/HB/1400-1499/HB1490PS.htm)
8. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/pdf/sam/HB1490_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
9. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/HB/1400-1499/HB1490SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage as Amended — **119–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **52–0** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **50–0** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **111–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Lamar — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary A;Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-27T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPAA: JA To AP
- **2020-03-03T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPAA: AP To JA
- **2020-03-03T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Read the Third Time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2020-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2020-05-26T05:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2020-06-03T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary, Division A;Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-04T05:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPAA: JA To AP
- **2020-06-09T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2020-06-16T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2020-06-16T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2020-06-18T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2020-06-19T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2020-06-23T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Cockerham,Lamar,Blackmon
- **2020-06-24T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Cockerham,Lamar,White
- **2020-06-24T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Doty,McCaughn,Parker
- **2020-06-29T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2020-06-29T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2020-06-30T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2020-06-30T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2020-07-02T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2020-07-02T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2020-07-08T05:00:00+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/2a616734-b928-4a40-ab77-58b117ba8d78`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).