---
type: "Bill"
title: "Clerks in youth court; remove prohibition against receiving compensation for attending youth court."
description: "Clerks in youth court; remove prohibition against receiving compensation for attending youth court."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1451"
citation: "Mississippi HB 1451 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Judiciary A", "Judiciary", "Division A"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hood"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 11
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/4470055c-62b2-4a7c-b74d-ada7d569be37"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2025/pdf/House_authors/Hood.xml"
source_hash: "9bea49f1559a500a130270853592079dd08a7306356c40820efe459ef646abd0"
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 1451 (2025) — Clerks in youth court; remove prohibition against receiving compensation for attending youth court.

## 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/HB1451IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/1400-1499/HB1451PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/1400-1499/HB1451SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **114–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **50–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hood — primary (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** 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`
- **2025-02-27T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-10T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2025-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-03-12T05:00:00+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/4470055c-62b2-4a7c-b74d-ada7d569be37`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).