---
type: "Bill"
title: "Open Season; revise dates for fur-bearing animals and hunting opossums, racoons and bobcats with dogs and guns."
description: "Open Season; revise dates for fur-bearing animals and hunting opossums, racoons and bobcats with dogs and guns."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 1206"
citation: "Mississippi HB 1206 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Wildlife", "Fisheries and Parks"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kinkade"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 13
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-02-14T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-04-23T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/154291b1-1600-4413-aea9-f972e6818744"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2024/pdf/House_authors/Kinkade.xml"
source_hash: "130533272e179a77a28645e123854b71c8c811eb9e77403693f2c715c0507f89"
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 1206 (2024) — Open Season; revise dates for fur-bearing animals and hunting opossums, racoons and bobcats with dogs and guns.

## 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/1200-1299/HB1206IN.htm)
2. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 1206** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB1206.pdf)
3. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/HB/1200-1299/HB1206PS.htm)
4. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/pdf/sam/HB1206_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
5. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/HB/1200-1299/HB1206SG.htm)

## Votes

- Concurrence in Amendment From Senate — **121–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **117–1** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **52–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Kinkade — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-14T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-05T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-14T05:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2024-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2024-04-09T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2024-04-09T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2024-04-11T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2024-04-15T05:00:00+00:00** Concurred in Amend From Senate
- **2024-04-16T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-04-17T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-04-23T05:00:00+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/154291b1-1600-4413-aea9-f972e6818744`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).