---
type: "Bill"
title: "Department of Health; authorize to increase fees for water quality analysis as required by the Safe Drinking Water Act."
description: "Department of Health; authorize to increase fees for water quality analysis as required by the Safe Drinking Water Act."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1447"
citation: "Mississippi HB 1447 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Health and Human Services", "Public Health and Welfare"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Creekmore"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-20T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-18T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8498aa87-348f-4840-9287-647c2344bdf8"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2025/pdf/House_authors/Creekmore_IV.xml"
source_hash: "732abdb9b5e505984d5e227b6298d3daf31dc81d5d8d8e4e1fd0db4959e5cfc8"
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 1447 (2025) — Department of Health; authorize to increase fees for water quality analysis as required by the Safe Drinking Water Act.

## 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/1400-1499/HB1447IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 (Cmte Sub) (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/ham/HB1447_H_(Cmte_Sub)_Amend_01.htm)
3. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/1400-1499/HB1447PS.htm)
4. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/1400-1499/HB1447CS.htm)
5. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/1400-1499/HB1447SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage as Amended — **112–5** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **49–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Creekmore — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-20T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Public Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-04T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Read the Third Time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2025-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2025-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2025-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Public Health and Welfare `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-03T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2025-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-03-18T05:00:00+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/8498aa87-348f-4840-9287-647c2344bdf8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).