---
type: "Bill"
title: "Assistant District Attorneys and criminal investigators; increase authorized number of."
description: "Assistant District Attorneys and criminal investigators; increase authorized number of."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 834"
citation: "Mississippi HB 834 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Read"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 23
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-01-16T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2023-04-19T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fb006095-8534-4daf-be18-32ec58997b9f"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2023/pdf/House_authors/Karriem.xml"
source_hash: "de6b93926ac95463c5676eff89c4f0619ca9eac007f8a1124df30ced13c077cc"
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 834 (2023) — Assistant District Attorneys and criminal investigators; increase authorized number of.

## 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/2023/html/HB/0800-0899/HB0834IN.htm)
2. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 834** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB0834.pdf)
3. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/HB/0800-0899/HB0834PS.htm)
4. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/pdf/sam/HB0834_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
5. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/HB/0800-0899/HB0834SG.htm)

## Votes

- Adopt Conference Report — **115–4** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **111–4** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **49–3** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **50–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Read — primary (person)
- Karriem — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-31T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-02T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2023-02-03T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2023-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-28T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2023-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2023-03-08T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2023-03-14T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2023-03-16T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Read,Cockerham,Hood
- **2023-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Hopson,Wiggins,Blackwell
- **2023-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2023-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2023-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Recommitted For Further Conf
- **2023-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Recommitted For Further Conf
- **2023-03-29T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2023-03-29T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2023-03-30T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2023-03-30T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2023-04-04T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2023-04-05T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2023-04-19T05:00:00+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/fb006095-8534-4daf-be18-32ec58997b9f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).