---
type: "Bill"
title: "City of Hattiesburg; extend repealer on tourism commission and hotel/motel tax."
description: "City of Hattiesburg; extend repealer on tourism commission and hotel/motel tax."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 1742"
citation: "Mississippi HB 1742 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Local and Private", "Local and Private Legislation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McGee"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-03-07T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-04-01T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/75019802-7869-46f8-95c5-e1121b3e1004"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2022/pdf/House_authors/McCarty.xml"
source_hash: "742afc7381eb0fedada5197c8072b597baf229e9a059af8cf93465cb397779d4"
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 1742 (2022) — City of Hattiesburg; extend repealer on tourism commission and hotel/motel tax.

## 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/1700-1799/HB1742IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/HB/1700-1799/HB1742PS.htm)
3. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/HB/1700-1799/HB1742CS.htm)
4. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/HB/1700-1799/HB1742SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **48–3** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **107–8** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- McGee — primary (person)
- McCarty — cosponsor (person)
- Watson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Local and Private Legislation `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-15T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2022-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2022-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2022-03-21T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Local and Private `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-24T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-25T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2022-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2022-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2022-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2022-04-01T05:00:00+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/75019802-7869-46f8-95c5-e1121b3e1004`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).