---
type: "Bill"
title: "Construction manager at risk law; revise provisions related to selection of contractors and vendors for IHL."
description: "Construction manager at risk law; revise provisions related to selection of contractors and vendors for IHL."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1505"
citation: "Mississippi HB 1505 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Accountability", "Efficiency", "Transparency"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bell"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 22
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/c7aa4d57-224f-4012-8c69-afd9cb18b715"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2025/pdf/House_authors/Bell_(21st).xml"
source_hash: "255f425d17b47a5aaa2e5567f4a8f9a89f13b00e8461043b4fe177b861325158"
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 1505 (2025) — Construction manager at risk law; revise provisions related to selection of contractors and vendors for IHL.

## 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/1500-1599/HB1505IN.htm)
2. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 1505** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB1505.pdf)
3. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/1500-1599/HB1505PS.htm)
4. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/1500-1599/HB1505CS.htm)
5. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/1500-1599/HB1505SG.htm)
6. **Substitute No 1 for Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/sam/HB1505_S_Subst_1_for_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)

## Votes

- Passage as Amended — **41–7** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **117–0** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **114–0** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **44–5** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bell — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-20T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-30T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2025-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2025-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-19T06:00:00+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`
- **2025-03-13T05:00:00+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 Ford (54th),McCarty,Calvert
- **2025-03-21T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Parker,Williams,Barrett
- **2025-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2025-03-28T05:00:00+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 (Ford (54th), Porter)
- **2025-04-01T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2025-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Tabled
- **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/c7aa4d57-224f-4012-8c69-afd9cb18b715`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).