---
type: "Bill"
title: "Memorial highways; designate a segment of MS Highway 537 in Jones County as the \"Sgt. John Howard Tanner Memorial Highway.\""
description: "Memorial highways; designate a segment of MS Highway 537 in Jones County as the \"Sgt. John Howard Tanner Memorial Highway.\""
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 223"
citation: "Mississippi HB 223 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Highways and Transportation", "Transportation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Scoggin"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-01-07T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/df9d2248-2cd5-4647-870c-9dbd243fdeda"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2026/pdf/House_authors/Scoggin.xml"
source_hash: "23a8b134061a77b58c170ea27af3708cd080791afbac96a39edffabad8c0d21b"
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 223 (2026) — Memorial highways; designate a segment of MS Highway 537 in Jones County as the "Sgt. John Howard Tanner Memorial Highway."

## 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/2026/html/HB/0200-0299/HB0223IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2026/html/HB/0200-0299/HB0223PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2026/html/HB/0200-0299/HB0223SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **52–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **122–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Scoggin — primary (person)
- Scott — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-07T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-21T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-04T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2026-02-05T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2026-02-16T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Highways and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-25T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2026-03-05T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2026-03-09T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2026-03-10T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2026-03-10T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2026-03-17T05:00:00+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/df9d2248-2cd5-4647-870c-9dbd243fdeda`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).