---
type: "Bill"
title: "\"Representative Bill Kinkade Fostering Access and Inspiring True Hope (FAITH) Scholarship Program Act\"; create."
description: "\"Representative Bill Kinkade Fostering Access and Inspiring True Hope (FAITH) Scholarship Program Act\"; create."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 1313"
citation: "Mississippi HB 1313 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations", "Education", "Universities and Colleges"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bennett"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 24
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2022-01-17T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-04-18T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/358f0242-33e6-4f36-8546-bd31d559ed3b"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2022/pdf/House_authors/Aguirre.xml"
source_hash: "45bcbffc919fbae07852d4dbaa731c1779f18601d601493c32a8baabdb8c50c1"
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 1313 (2022) — "Representative Bill Kinkade Fostering Access and Inspiring True Hope (FAITH) Scholarship Program Act"; create.

## 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/2022/html/HB/1300-1399/HB1313IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/pdf/ham/HB1313_H_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **Amendment No 1 to Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/pdf/sam/HB1313_S_Amend_01_to_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
4. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 1313** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB1313.pdf)
5. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/HB/1300-1399/HB1313PS.htm)
6. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/pdf/sam/HB1313_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
7. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/HB/1300-1399/HB1313SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage as Amended — **52–0** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **50–0** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **114–4** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **118–4** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bennett — primary (person)
- Aguirre — cosponsor (person)
- Anderson (110th) — cosponsor (person)
- Anderson (122nd) — cosponsor (person)
- Anthony — cosponsor (person)
- Arnold — cosponsor (person)
- Bailey — cosponsor (person)
- Bain — cosponsor (person)
- Banks — cosponsor (person)
- Barnett — cosponsor (person)
- Barton — cosponsor (person)
- Beckett — cosponsor (person)
- Bell (21st) — cosponsor (person)
- Bell (65th) — cosponsor (person)
- Blackmon — cosponsor (person)
- Bomgar — cosponsor (person)
- Bounds — cosponsor (person)
- Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Brown (70th) — cosponsor (person)
- Burnett — cosponsor (person)
- Busby — cosponsor (person)
- Byrd — cosponsor (person)
- Calvert — cosponsor (person)
- Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
- Clark — cosponsor (person)
- Clarke — cosponsor (person)
- Cockerham — cosponsor (person)
- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
- Creekmore IV — cosponsor (person)
- Criswell — cosponsor (person)
- Crudup — cosponsor (person)
- Currie — cosponsor (person)
- Darnell — cosponsor (person)
- Denton — cosponsor (person)
- Deweese — cosponsor (person)
- Eubanks — cosponsor (person)
- Eure — cosponsor (person)
- Evans (45th) — cosponsor (person)
- Evans (91st) — cosponsor (person)
- Faulkner — cosponsor (person)
- Felsher — cosponsor (person)
- Ford (54th) — cosponsor (person)
- Ford (73rd) — cosponsor (person)
- Foster — cosponsor (person)
- Gibbs (36th) — cosponsor (person)
- Gibbs (72nd) — cosponsor (person)
- Goodin — cosponsor (person)
- Guice — cosponsor (person)
- Gunn — cosponsor (person)
- Hale — cosponsor (person)
- Haney — cosponsor (person)
- Harness — cosponsor (person)
- Hines — cosponsor (person)
- Hobgood-Wilkes — cosponsor (person)
- Holloway — cosponsor (person)
- Hood — cosponsor (person)
- Horan — cosponsor (person)
- Horne — cosponsor (person)
- Huddleston — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Karriem — cosponsor (person)
- Kinkade — cosponsor (person)
- Ladner — cosponsor (person)
- Lamar — cosponsor (person)
- Lancaster — cosponsor (person)
- Mangold — cosponsor (person)
- Massengill — cosponsor (person)
- McCarty — cosponsor (person)
- McCray — cosponsor (person)
- McGee — cosponsor (person)
- McKnight — cosponsor (person)
- McLean — cosponsor (person)
- McLeod — cosponsor (person)
- Mickens — cosponsor (person)
- Miles — cosponsor (person)
- Mims — cosponsor (person)
- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
- Newman — cosponsor (person)
- Oliver — cosponsor (person)
- Osborne — cosponsor (person)
- Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Paden — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Pigott — cosponsor (person)
- Porter — cosponsor (person)
- Powell — cosponsor (person)
- Read — cosponsor (person)
- Reynolds — cosponsor (person)
- Roberson — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Rosebud — cosponsor (person)
- Rushing — cosponsor (person)
- Sanders — cosponsor (person)
- Sanford — cosponsor (person)
- Scoggin — cosponsor (person)
- Scott — cosponsor (person)
- Shanks — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Stamps — cosponsor (person)
- Steverson — cosponsor (person)
- Straughter — cosponsor (person)
- Summers — cosponsor (person)
- Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Tubb — cosponsor (person)
- Tullos — cosponsor (person)
- Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Walker — cosponsor (person)
- Wallace — cosponsor (person)
- Watson — cosponsor (person)
- Weathersby — cosponsor (person)
- White — cosponsor (person)
- Williams-Barnes — cosponsor (person)
- Williamson — cosponsor (person)
- Wright — cosponsor (person)
- Yancey — cosponsor (person)
- Yates — cosponsor (person)
- Young — cosponsor (person)
- Zuber — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-17T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Education;Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-26T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: ED To AP
- **2022-01-27T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: AP To ED
- **2022-01-27T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-03T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2022-02-03T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2022-02-07T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2022-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Universities and Colleges;Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-24T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPAA: UC To AP
- **2022-03-01T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-08T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2022-03-08T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2022-03-10T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2022-03-16T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2022-03-22T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Bennett,Read,Crudup
- **2022-03-25T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Parks,Polk,Hopson
- **2022-03-29T05:00:00+00:00** Suspend from Deadlines by HC 89
- **2022-03-30T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2022-03-30T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2022-03-30T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2022-03-31T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2022-04-04T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2022-04-04T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2022-04-18T05:00:00+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/358f0242-33e6-4f36-8546-bd31d559ed3b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).