---
type: "Bill"
title: "Election commissioners; require skills assessment for every four years instead of every year."
description: "Election commissioners; require skills assessment for every four years instead of every year."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 1331"
citation: "Mississippi HB 1331 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Accountability", "Efficiency", "Transparency", "Apportionment and Elections", "Elections"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Goodin"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-01-17T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-03-17T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/734460ec-c8f0-46fc-bc28-62dd071a898d"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2022/pdf/House_authors/Goodin.xml"
source_hash: "f3a71495563180f87f5528cc261988622f1aeb500c2348b078456e78a9859c05"
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 1331 (2022) — Election commissioners; require skills assessment for every four years instead of every year.

## 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/HB1331IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/HB/1300-1399/HB1331PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/HB/1300-1399/HB1331SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **52–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **111–6** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Goodin — primary (person)
- McCarty — cosponsor (person)
- Tubb — cosponsor (person)
- Tullos — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-17T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Apportionment and Elections `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-01T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-07T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2022-02-08T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2022-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Elections;Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-28T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: EL To AC
- **2022-03-01T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-08T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2022-03-09T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2022-03-10T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2022-03-11T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2022-03-17T05:00:00+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/734460ec-c8f0-46fc-bc28-62dd071a898d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).