---
type: "Bill"
title: "The Phillip Cameron Hendry Mississippi Mosquito and West Nile Virus Awareness Week; designate the second week in April annually as."
description: "The Phillip Cameron Hendry Mississippi Mosquito and West Nile Virus Awareness Week; designate the second week in April annually as."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 559"
citation: "Mississippi HB 559 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Rules"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tullos"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-01-13T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2023-03-17T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/695486e4-816e-408d-83ea-b977b7604c81"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2023/pdf/House_authors/Tullos.xml"
source_hash: "ed47c3875184fb7e593ca33f6c616fcaf76fe7acd24beee0dc9510526881b6bd"
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 559 (2023) — The Phillip Cameron Hendry Mississippi Mosquito and West Nile Virus Awareness Week; designate the second week in April annually as.

## 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/2023/html/HB/0500-0599/HB0559IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/HB/0500-0599/HB0559PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/HB/0500-0599/HB0559SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **117–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Tullos — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-13T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Rules `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-26T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-30T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2023-01-30T06:00:00+00:00** Immediate Release
- **2023-01-30T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2023-02-08T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Rules `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-09T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2023-02-14T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2023-02-14T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2023-02-14T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2023-03-17T05:00:00+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/695486e4-816e-408d-83ea-b977b7604c81`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).