---
type: "Bill"
title: "Camping; prohibit on public property."
description: "Camping; prohibit on public property."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1203"
citation: "Mississippi HB 1203 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Judiciary A", "Judiciary", "Division B"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Yates"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 23
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/ddc915e1-e0ed-45b6-8afb-7c81b826d856"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2025/pdf/House_authors/Felsher.xml"
source_hash: "96d1e73cc39aa00623160469b7c55c07689307200477eb57413bcb38bca3fc70"
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 1203 (2025) — Camping; prohibit on public property.

## 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/HB1203IN.htm)
2. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 1203** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB1203.pdf)
3. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/1200-1299/HB1203PS.htm)
4. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/sam/HB1203_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
5. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/1200-1299/HB1203SG.htm)

## Votes

- Adopt Conference Report — **73–35** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **34–11** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **36–12** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **72–34** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Yates — primary (person)
- Felsher — cosponsor (person)
- Ford (73rd) — cosponsor (person)
- Foster — cosponsor (person)
- Hale — cosponsor (person)
- Mansell — cosponsor (person)
- McMillan — cosponsor (person)
- Newman — cosponsor (person)
- Shanks — cosponsor (person)
- Varner — cosponsor (person)
- Wallace — cosponsor (person)
- Zuber — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-20T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary A `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-28T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-05T06:00:00+00:00** Tabled Failed
- **2025-02-05T06:00:00+00:00** Amendment Tabled
- **2025-02-05T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-06T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2025-02-14T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary, Division B `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2025-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2025-03-19T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2025-03-19T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Hood,Yates,Boyd (37th)
- **2025-03-20T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Fillingane,Sparks,McMahan
- **2025-03-31T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2025-03-31T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2025-04-01T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2025-04-01T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered (Yates, Hood)
- **2025-04-01T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2025-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Tabled
- **2025-04-07T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-04-07T05:00:00+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/ddc915e1-e0ed-45b6-8afb-7c81b826d856`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).