---
type: "Bill"
title: "Lauderdale County; authorize to fund Chaplaincy Program of the detention facility from revenue of inmate phone service."
description: "Lauderdale County; authorize to fund Chaplaincy Program of the detention facility from revenue of inmate phone service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1730"
citation: "Mississippi HB 1730 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Local and Private Legislation", "Local and Private"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Snowden"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-13T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-04-03T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e3c07a86-3ba1-445f-89fe-494356baa762"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2019/pdf/House_authors/Evans_(45th).xml"
source_hash: "fca3a1d21c8c106b73153c1aa13a142c6746f97656ea88353df6a995a1f19808"
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 1730 (2019) — Lauderdale County; authorize to fund Chaplaincy Program of the detention facility from revenue of inmate phone service.

## 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/2019/html/HB/1700-1799/HB1730IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/HB/1700-1799/HB1730PS.htm)
3. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/HB/1700-1799/HB1730CS.htm)
4. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/HB/1700-1799/HB1730SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **52–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **118–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Snowden — primary (person)
- Evans_(45th) — cosponsor (person)
- Horne — cosponsor (person)
- Young — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Local and Private Legislation `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-19T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-20T05:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2019-03-20T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2019-03-20T05:00:00+00:00** Immediate Release
- **2019-03-21T05:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2019-03-21T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Local and Private `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-25T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2019-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Immediate Release
- **2019-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2019-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2019-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2019-04-03T05:00:00+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/e3c07a86-3ba1-445f-89fe-494356baa762`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).