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type: "Bill"
title: "State Flag; revise with a commission and require words \"In God We Trust.\""
description: "State Flag; revise with a commission and require words \"In God We Trust.\""
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 1796"
citation: "Mississippi HB 1796 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Rules"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gunn"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-06-28T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2020-06-30T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0f13f8fa-1308-493c-a6e3-b55c73a6eed2"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2020/pdf/House_authors/Anderson_(110th).xml"
source_hash: "2994a562e8d65c4fa11f2964fb6a1142d4e8e024ac09ea1630cc08503eba62a8"
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 1796 (2020) — State Flag; revise with a commission and require words "In God We Trust."
## 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/2020/html/HB/1700-1799/HB1796IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/HB/1700-1799/HB1796PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/HB/1700-1799/HB1796SG.htm)
## Votes
- Passage — **3714** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **9223** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Gunn — primary (person)
- Anderson (110th) — cosponsor (person)
- Anthony — cosponsor (person)
- Banks — cosponsor (person)
- Bell (65th) — cosponsor (person)
- Brown (70th) — cosponsor (person)
- Burnett — cosponsor (person)
- Clark — cosponsor (person)
- Crudup — cosponsor (person)
- Denton — cosponsor (person)
- Evans (91st) — cosponsor (person)
- Faulkner — cosponsor (person)
- Ford (73rd) — cosponsor (person)
- Foster — cosponsor (person)
- Gibbs (72nd) — cosponsor (person)
- Harness — cosponsor (person)
- Hines — cosponsor (person)
- Holloway — cosponsor (person)
- Hudson — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Karriem — cosponsor (person)
- McCray — cosponsor (person)
- McGee — cosponsor (person)
- Mickens — cosponsor (person)
- Osborne — cosponsor (person)
- Paden — cosponsor (person)
- Porter — cosponsor (person)
- Reynolds — cosponsor (person)
- Rosebud — cosponsor (person)
- Scott — cosponsor (person)
- Summers — cosponsor (person)
- Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Walker — cosponsor (person)
- White — cosponsor (person)
- Williams-Barnes — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-06-28T05:00:00+00:00** Suspend from Deadlines by HC 79
- **2020-06-28T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Rules `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-28T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-06-28T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2020-06-28T05:00:00+00:00** Immediate Release
- **2020-06-28T05:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2020-06-28T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Rules `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-28T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-06-28T05:00:00+00:00** Amendment Tabled
- **2020-06-28T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2020-06-28T05:00:00+00:00** Immediate Release
- **2020-06-28T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2020-06-28T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2020-06-28T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2020-06-30T05:00:00+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/0f13f8fa-1308-493c-a6e3-b55c73a6eed2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).