---
type: "Bill"
title: "Income tax and ad valorem tax; create incentives for developers to improve tax forfeited, blighted properties in MS."
description: "Income tax and ad valorem tax; create incentives for developers to improve tax forfeited, blighted properties in MS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1201"
citation: "Mississippi HB 1201 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Finance", "Ways and Means"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Yates"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-01-20T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-17T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fbcd9b0d-ae9c-41d7-b053-0fd7aaac27e2"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2025/pdf/House_authors/Blackmon.xml"
source_hash: "9a6abd1c6b3ac44be8e7dd0c58c3f233f2cf42be0f86b2a173e2d55766dbe12a"
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 1201 (2025) — Income tax and ad valorem tax; create incentives for developers to improve tax forfeited, blighted properties in MS.

## 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/2025/html/HB/1200-1299/HB1201IN.htm)
2. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 1201** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB1201.pdf)
3. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/1200-1299/HB1201PS.htm)
4. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/sam/HB1201_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
5. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/1200-1299/HB1201SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage as Amended — **51–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **120–0** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **116–0** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **49–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Yates — primary (person)
- Blackmon — cosponsor (person)
- Butler-Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Crudup — cosponsor (person)
- Ford (73rd) — cosponsor (person)
- Foster — cosponsor (person)
- Mansell — cosponsor (person)
- McMillan — cosponsor (person)
- Nelson — cosponsor (person)
- Newman — cosponsor (person)
- Powell — cosponsor (person)
- Shanks — cosponsor (person)
- Varner — cosponsor (person)
- Wallace — cosponsor (person)
- Yancey — cosponsor (person)
- Zuber — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-20T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-28T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-29T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2025-01-30T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2025-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2025-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2025-03-20T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2025-03-25T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Lamar,Steverson,Barnett
- **2025-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Harkins,Johnson,Horhn
- **2025-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2025-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2025-03-31T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2025-03-31T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2025-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-04-03T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-04-17T05:00:00+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/fbcd9b0d-ae9c-41d7-b053-0fd7aaac27e2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).