---
type: "Bill"
title: "Mental Health Regional Commissions; authorize boards of supervisors to agree to board compositions."
description: "Mental Health Regional Commissions; authorize boards of supervisors to agree to board compositions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1530"
citation: "Mississippi HB 1530 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Accountability", "Efficiency", "Transparency", "Public Health and Welfare"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ford"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-20T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-12T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c10ae9e7-e550-4308-954c-0cb524ddb673"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2025/pdf/House_authors/Ford_(54th).xml"
source_hash: "7cd04e59bd2801c4dde662dd0b9c7c522b019337805351e5f0c01039b8548ca4"
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 1530 (2025) — Mental Health Regional Commissions; authorize boards of supervisors to agree to board compositions.

## 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/HB1530IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/1500-1599/HB1530PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/1500-1599/HB1530SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **50–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **116–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ford — 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 `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Read the Third Time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-14T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2025-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Public Health and Welfare `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2025-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-03-10T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-03-12T05:00:00+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/c10ae9e7-e550-4308-954c-0cb524ddb673`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).