---
type: "Bill"
title: "Publishers' fees; revise those charged for publication of legal documents."
description: "Publishers' fees; revise those charged for publication of legal documents."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 598"
citation: "Mississippi HB 598 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Accountability", "Efficiency", "Transparency", "Finance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barnett"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 17
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-01-15T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-01T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/23196e3c-75e6-42e7-a813-a10ad67b1fa9"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2025/pdf/House_authors/Barnett.xml"
source_hash: "64a862d9c3baa9aae519669fc3de1df5dcc35bf33565d41b79f222a781377c3a"
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 598 (2025) — Publishers' fees; revise those charged for publication of legal documents.

## 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/0500-0599/HB0598IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 to Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/sam/HB0598_S_Amend_01_to_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **Amendment No 2 to Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/sam/HB0598_S_Amend_02_to_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
4. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 598** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB0598.pdf)
5. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/0500-0599/HB0598PS.htm)
6. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/sam/HB0598_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
7. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/0500-0599/HB0598SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **117–1** (pass) · lower
- Concurrence in Amendment From Senate — **119–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **51–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **48–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Barnett — primary (person)
- Karriem — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-15T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-30T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-06T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-07T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2025-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-27T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2025-03-10T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered
- **2025-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Reconsidered
- **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** Concurred in Amend From Senate
- **2025-03-21T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-03-21T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-04-01T05:00:00+00:00** Law W/out Governor's Signature `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/23196e3c-75e6-42e7-a813-a10ad67b1fa9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).