---
type: "Bill"
title: "Alcoholic beverages; authorize municipalities in dry counties vote to come out from under the dry law."
description: "Alcoholic beverages; authorize municipalities in dry counties vote to come out from under the dry law."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 1161"
citation: "Mississippi HB 1161 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Finance", "State Affairs"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lamar"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-02-14T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-05-08T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/735f7273-945f-4eb6-b826-287e1ed6b6e6"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2024/pdf/House_authors/Lamar.xml"
source_hash: "41263212aaf78702e990db62e72815d624801073579f39ccaf148e97214c9305"
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 1161 (2024) — Alcoholic beverages; authorize municipalities in dry counties vote to come out from under the dry law.

## 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/2024/html/HB/1100-1199/HB1161IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/pdf/sam/HB1161_S_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 1161** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB1161.pdf)
4. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/HB/1100-1199/HB1161PS.htm)
5. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/HB/1100-1199/HB1161SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage as Amended — **41–7** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **42–7** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **102–9** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **96–18** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Lamar — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-14T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To State Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-27T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2024-03-21T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2024-04-10T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2024-04-10T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2024-04-11T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2024-04-15T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2024-04-16T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Zuber,Johnson,Yates
- **2024-04-18T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Harkins,Carter,Suber
- **2024-04-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2024-04-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2024-04-30T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2024-04-30T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2024-05-02T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-05-03T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-05-08T05:00:00+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/735f7273-945f-4eb6-b826-287e1ed6b6e6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).