---
type: "Bill"
title: "Sexual offense; provide immunity for reporting."
description: "Sexual offense; provide immunity for reporting."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 861"
citation: "Mississippi HB 861 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Judiciary B", "Judiciary", "Division B"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McLean"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-01-16T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-17T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ad01843c-a5a1-4e33-9a29-5aa887e0e077"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2025/pdf/House_authors/McLean.xml"
source_hash: "20e11ac99f5fd4808939d6f4d9dcc5bb4bac9cb9af12dd8478161ca53c938854"
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 861 (2025) — Sexual offense; provide immunity for reporting.

## 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/0800-0899/HB0861IN.htm)
2. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 861** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB0861.pdf)
3. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/0800-0899/HB0861PS.htm)
4. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/sam/HB0861_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
5. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/0800-0899/HB0861SG.htm)

## Votes

- Adopt Conference Report — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **51–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **115–0** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **118–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- McLean — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary B `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-04T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2025-02-14T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary, Division B `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
- **2025-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2025-03-14T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Horan,McLean,Hurst
- **2025-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Fillingane,Hill,Barnett
- **2025-03-31T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2025-03-31T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2025-04-01T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2025-04-01T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2025-04-01T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered (Horan, Owen)
- **2025-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Tabled
- **2025-04-03T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-04-07T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-04-17T05:00:00+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/ad01843c-a5a1-4e33-9a29-5aa887e0e077`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).