---
type: "Bill"
title: "Election crime; create for the willful failure to transmit a voter's ballot in certain situations."
description: "Election crime; create for the willful failure to transmit a voter's ballot in certain situations."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 724"
citation: "Mississippi HB 724 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Apportionment and Elections", "Elections", "Judiciary A"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sanford"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 15
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-15T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-21T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/adf58c26-ffc9-45df-addb-d7f97ca77f54"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2025/pdf/House_authors/Sanford.xml"
source_hash: "b8e73fbe24205d9f8283d27bad68e00ab6adde86adcf563b002316ba5f685b49"
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 724 (2025) — Election crime; create for the willful failure to transmit a voter's ballot in certain situations.

## 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/0700-0799/HB0724IN.htm)
2. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 724** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB0724.pdf)
3. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/0700-0799/HB0724PS.htm)
4. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/sam/HB0724_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
5. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/0700-0799/HB0724SG.htm)

## Votes

- Concurrence in Amendment From Senate — **109–3** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **51–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **91–18** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Sanford — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-15T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Apportionment and Elections;Judiciary A `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-23T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: AE To JA
- **2025-01-31T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: JA To AE
- **2025-01-31T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2025-02-14T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Elections `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-27T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-05T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-05T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2025-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2025-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Concurred in Amend From Senate
- **2025-03-14T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-03-21T05:00:00+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/adf58c26-ffc9-45df-addb-d7f97ca77f54`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).