---
type: "Bill"
title: "Taxation; revise provisions regarding certain income tax credits, sale tax and ad valorem tax exemptions and franchise tax credits."
description: "Taxation; revise provisions regarding certain income tax credits, sale tax and ad valorem tax exemptions and franchise tax credits."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 1729"
citation: "Mississippi HB 1729 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Ways and Means", "Finance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lamar"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 14
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-05-28T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2020-07-07T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/895e1de5-4b37-4cd2-b184-9052da1c007d"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2020/pdf/House_authors/Lamar.xml"
source_hash: "fef630c064815b64b7f15a3f26abffbae064c42cba1cb7603432daa02b37bb0c"
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 1729 (2020) — Taxation; revise provisions regarding certain income tax credits, sale tax and ad valorem tax exemptions and franchise tax credits.

## 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/1700-1799/HB1729IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 to Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/pdf/sam/HB1729_S_Amend_01_to_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 1729** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB1729.pdf)
4. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/HB/1700-1799/HB1729PS.htm)
5. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/pdf/sam/HB1729_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
6. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/HB/1700-1799/HB1729CS.htm)
7. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/HB/1700-1799/HB1729SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **116–1** (pass) · lower
- Concurrence in Amendment From Senate — **117–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **50–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Lamar — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-05-28T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-28T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2020-05-29T05:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2020-05-29T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2020-06-01T05:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2020-06-03T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-17T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2020-06-23T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2020-06-23T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2020-06-25T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2020-06-26T05:00:00+00:00** Concurred in Amend From Senate
- **2020-06-30T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2020-06-30T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2020-07-07T05:00:00+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/895e1de5-4b37-4cd2-b184-9052da1c007d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).