---
type: "Bill"
title: "Mississippi Department of Information Technology Services; revise bidding procedure."
description: "Mississippi Department of Information Technology Services; revise bidding procedure."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 297"
citation: "Mississippi HB 297 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Affairs", "Technology"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Zuber"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 25
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-01-18T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-05-08T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/112e444e-5b90-460b-aaa3-d74b3294e425"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2024/pdf/House_authors/Butler-Washington.xml"
source_hash: "6ddfba8045badcb65bb21c06e29394b4d15bef0982c42432661611fcdb2db3b8"
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 297 (2024) — Mississippi Department of Information Technology Services; revise bidding procedure.

## 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/0200-0299/HB0297IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/pdf/sam/HB0297_S_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 297** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB0297.pdf)
4. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/HB/0200-0299/HB0297PS.htm)
5. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/HB/0200-0299/HB0297SG.htm)

## Votes

- Adopt Conference Report — **52–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **52–0** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **114–1** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **118–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Zuber — primary (person)
- Butler-Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Gibbs (36th) — cosponsor (person)
- Gibbs (72nd) — cosponsor (person)
- Holloway (76th) — cosponsor (person)
- Hulum — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson (45th) — cosponsor (person)
- Mickens — cosponsor (person)
- Nelson — cosponsor (person)
- Osborne — cosponsor (person)
- Paden — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-18T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To State Affairs;Technology `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-27T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: SA To TE
- **2024-02-29T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: TE To SA
- **2024-02-29T06:00:00+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`
- **2024-03-21T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Technology `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `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** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2024-04-16T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Zuber,Shanks,Ford (73rd)
- **2024-04-17T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Williams,DeLano,Parker
- **2024-04-23T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2024-04-23T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2024-04-25T05:00:00+00:00** Recommitted For Further Conf
- **2024-04-25T05:00:00+00:00** Recommitted For Further Conf
- **2024-04-25T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2024-04-25T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2024-04-26T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2024-04-29T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2024-05-01T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-05-01T05:00:00+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/112e444e-5b90-460b-aaa3-d74b3294e425`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).