---
type: "Bill"
title: "Kinship payments for foster children; revise who may be paid."
description: "Kinship payments for foster children; revise who may be paid."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1387"
citation: "Mississippi HB 1387 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Judiciary", "Division A", "Youth and Family Affairs"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cockerham"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-20T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-12T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/851c5313-9412-4715-841a-49b8992a3950"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2025/pdf/House_authors/Anthony.xml"
source_hash: "d41fb2be6d38473015248994dc8f69d2edfe55699ada8b5cd851a58727c66d7d"
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 1387 (2025) — Kinship payments for foster children; revise who may be paid.

## 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/HB1387IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/1300-1399/HB1387PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/1300-1399/HB1387SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **50–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **120–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Cockerham — primary (person)
- Anthony — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-20T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Youth and Family Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-28T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-05T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-06T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2025-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary, Division A `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2025-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-03-10T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-03-12T05:00:00+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/851c5313-9412-4715-841a-49b8992a3950`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).