republic-os/legislation/us/states/ms/2020/hb-1521.md

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Bill	Absentee ballots; revise procedures and timeline for mailing to voter and receiving from voter.	Absentee ballots; revise procedures and timeline for mailing to voter and receiving from voter.	us/states/ms	Mississippi Legislature	2020	HB 1521	Mississippi HB 1521 (2020)	bill	Apportionment and Elections Elections	enacted	Beckett	7	21	4	2020-02-17T06:00:00+00:00	2020-07-08T05:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/73971d8d-3b78-4a9f-9e7a-fa2d4997e318	http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2020/pdf/House_authors/Beckett.xml	400001e900eda13d0c761d2ff9422ee4d5778c004e80b65543cac8023da71c7c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ms

Mississippi HB 1521 (2020) — Absentee ballots; revise procedures and timeline for mailing to voter and receiving from voter.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. As Introduced (filed) — source
2. Amendment No 1 to Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (committee substitute) — source
3. Amendment No 4 to Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (committee substitute) — source
4. Amendment Report for House Bill No. 1521 (committee substitute) — source
5. As Passed the lower (committee substitute) — source
6. Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (committee substitute) — source
7. Current version (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passage as Amended — 51–0 (pass) · upper
• Passage — 118–1 (pass) · lower
• Adopt Conference Report — 97–14 (pass) · lower
• Adopt Conference Report — 31–14 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Beckett — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-02-17T06:00:00+00:00 Referred To Apportionment and Elections referral-committee
• 2020-02-27T06:00:00+00:00 Title Suff Do Pass committee-passage
• 2020-03-10T05:00:00+00:00 Passed passage
• 2020-03-11T05:00:00+00:00 Transmitted To Senate introduction
• 2020-05-11T05:00:00+00:00 Referred To Elections referral-committee
• 2020-06-08T05:00:00+00:00 Title Suff Do Pass As Amended committee-passage
• 2020-06-15T05:00:00+00:00 Amended amendment-passage
• 2020-06-15T05:00:00+00:00 Passed As Amended passage
• 2020-06-17T05:00:00+00:00 Returned For Concurrence
• 2020-06-19T05:00:00+00:00 Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
• 2020-06-22T05:00:00+00:00 Conferees Named Beckett,Eubanks,Reynolds
• 2020-06-22T05:00:00+00:00 Conferees Named Branning,Tate,Blount
• 2020-06-26T05:00:00+00:00 Conference Report Filed
• 2020-06-26T05:00:00+00:00 Conference Report Filed
• 2020-06-28T05:00:00+00:00 Conference Report Adopted
• 2020-06-29T05:00:00+00:00 Conference Report Adopted
• 2020-06-29T05:00:00+00:00 Motion to Reconsider Entered
• 2020-06-30T05:00:00+00:00 Motion to Reconsider Tabled
• 2020-07-01T05:00:00+00:00 Enrolled Bill Signed
• 2020-07-02T05:00:00+00:00 Enrolled Bill Signed
• 2020-07-08T05:00:00+00:00 Approved by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/73971d8d-3b78-4a9f-9e7a-fa2d4997e318. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).