republic-os/legislation/us/states/ms/2020/hb-493.md

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Mississippi HB 493 (2020) — Counties; may also maintain electronic format of law books in courtrooms and in county public law libraries.

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 Report for House Bill No. 493 (committee substitute) — source
4. As Passed the lower (committee substitute) — source
5. Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (committee substitute) — source
6. Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
7. Current version (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passage as Amended — 51–0 (pass) · upper
• Passage — 118–1 (pass) · lower
• Concurrence in Amendment From Senate — 117–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Byrd — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-02-04T06:00:00+00:00 Referred To County Affairs;Judiciary A referral-committee
• 2020-02-11T06:00:00+00:00 DR - TSDP: CA To JA
• 2020-02-26T06:00:00+00:00 DR - TSDPCS: JA To CA
• 2020-03-03T06:00:00+00:00 Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub committee-passage
• 2020-03-05T06:00:00+00:00 Committee Substitute Adopted substitution
• 2020-03-05T06:00:00+00:00 Passed passage
• 2020-03-09T05:00:00+00:00 Transmitted To Senate introduction
• 2020-05-11T05:00:00+00:00 Referred To Judiciary, Division A referral-committee
• 2020-05-28T05:00:00+00:00 Title Suff Do Pass As Amended committee-passage
• 2020-06-10T05:00:00+00:00 Amended amendment-passage
• 2020-06-10T05:00:00+00:00 Passed As Amended passage
• 2020-06-12T05:00:00+00:00 Returned For Concurrence
• 2020-06-17T05:00:00+00:00 Concurred in Amend From Senate
• 2020-06-22T05:00:00+00:00 Enrolled Bill Signed
• 2020-06-23T05:00:00+00:00 Enrolled Bill Signed
• 2020-06-29T05:00:00+00:00 Approved by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c4c48333-cba9-4f2b-bfea-4705d37d355a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).