---
type: "Bill"
title: "Mississippi Native Spirit Law; rename and revise various provisions."
description: "Mississippi Native Spirit Law; rename and revise various provisions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1284"
citation: "Mississippi HB 1284 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Finance", "State Affairs"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hawkins"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 14
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-20T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-02T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4da6c2f2-86ec-41bd-81ac-efd6ee1e6b92"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2025/pdf/House_authors/Barton.xml"
source_hash: "3f34168dfd51e78270fb6e7d0ea01dbebc6b626bcb22ea0ceaa5038dd4f7e909"
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 1284 (2025) — Mississippi Native Spirit Law; rename and revise various provisions.

## 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/HB1284IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/ham/HB1284_H_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 1284** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB1284.pdf)
4. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/1200-1299/HB1284PS.htm)
5. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/1200-1299/HB1284SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage as Amended — **51–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **93–10** (pass) · lower
- Concurrence in Amendment From Senate — **108–5** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hawkins — primary (person)
- Barton — cosponsor (person)
- Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
- Deweese — cosponsor (person)
- Grady — cosponsor (person)
- Hall — cosponsor (person)
- Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Hulum — cosponsor (person)
- Keen — cosponsor (person)
- McMillan — cosponsor (person)
- Powell — cosponsor (person)
- Yates — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-20T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To State Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-04T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2025-02-13T06:00:00+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 `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2025-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2025-03-21T05:00:00+00:00** Concurred in Amend From Senate
- **2025-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-04-02T05:00:00+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/4da6c2f2-86ec-41bd-81ac-efd6ee1e6b92`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).