---
type: "Bill"
title: "Appropriation; Foresters, Board of Registration for."
description: "Appropriation; Foresters, Board of Registration for."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 1615"
citation: "Mississippi HB 1615 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Read"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2022-02-14T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-03-28T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5db423af-d7ff-42d1-bafb-5b27b0cbff59"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2022/pdf/House_authors/Arnold.xml"
source_hash: "b9d38c1956d5e58bac4c512d1118dd710bc6a98b38840e7170792d94831c8e1c"
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 1615 (2022) — Appropriation; Foresters, Board of Registration for.

## 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/1600-1699/HB1615IN.htm)
2. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 1615** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB1615.pdf)
3. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/HB/1600-1699/HB1615PS.htm)
4. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/pdf/ham/HB1615_H_Cmte_Amend_01.htm)
5. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/HB/1600-1699/HB1615SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage as Amended — **108–10** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **51–0** (pass) · upper
- Concurrence in Amendment From Senate — **111–7** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Read — primary (person)
- Arnold — cosponsor (person)
- Bounds — cosponsor (person)
- Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Huddleston — cosponsor (person)
- Mangold — cosponsor (person)
- Pigott — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-14T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-15T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2022-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2022-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered (Hood, Read, Oliver)
- **2022-02-23T06:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Tabled
- **2022-02-24T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2022-02-25T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-14T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-15T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2022-03-15T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2022-03-16T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2022-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Concurred in Amend From Senate
- **2022-03-21T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2022-03-22T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2022-03-28T05:00:00+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/5db423af-d7ff-42d1-bafb-5b27b0cbff59`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).