---
type: "Bill"
title: "Unmarked vehicles; revise requirements for and prohibit impersonation of law enforcement."
description: "Unmarked vehicles; revise requirements for and prohibit impersonation of law enforcement."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1338"
citation: "Mississippi HB 1338 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Accountability", "Efficiency", "Transparency", "Judiciary B", "Judiciary", "Division B"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Owen"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 24
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/661dd902-af68-4dbf-af7b-b4bc8ff72e62"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2025/pdf/House_authors/Owen.xml"
source_hash: "47de7a187b6a37d7cdbb4124c15ef9b84274333f923e999739b1129e8cf89411"
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 1338 (2025) — Unmarked vehicles; revise requirements for and prohibit impersonation of law enforcement.

## 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/1300-1399/HB1338IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/ham/HB1338_H_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **Amendment No 1 to Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/ham/HB1338_H_Amend_01_to_Amend_01.pdf)
4. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 1338** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB1338.pdf)
5. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/1300-1399/HB1338PS.htm)
6. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/1300-1399/HB1338CS.htm)
7. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/1300-1399/HB1338SG.htm)
8. **Substitute No 1 for Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/sam/HB1338_S_Subst_1_for_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)

## Votes

- Adopt Conference Report — **85–26** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **51–0** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **66–48** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Owen — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-20T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary B `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-23T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Tabled
- **2025-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2025-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2025-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary, Division B;Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPAA: JB To AC
- **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
- **2025-03-19T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2025-03-20T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Horan,Hurst,McLean
- **2025-03-20T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Fillingane,Berry,Suber
- **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 (Horan, Owen)
- **2025-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Tabled
- **2025-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **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/661dd902-af68-4dbf-af7b-b4bc8ff72e62`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).