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type: "Bill"
title: "Municipalities with a certain population; allow to establish overdue water/sewer programs."
description: "Municipalities with a certain population; allow to establish overdue water/sewer programs."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 359"
citation: "Mississippi HB 359 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Accountability", "Efficiency", "Transparency", "Municipalities"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bell"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 22
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-01-18T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-18T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a4dd241f-deb0-4ad1-8e6b-f7f030313b09"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2021/pdf/House_authors/Bell_(65th).xml"
source_hash: "adcd5064f49e073e964fdc0286d1f5ff059bca065ab9d0e5465f0c31530c72fe"
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 359 (2021) — Municipalities with a certain population; allow to establish overdue water/sewer programs.
## 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/2021/html/HB/0300-0399/HB0359IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 (Cmte Sub) (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/pdf/ham/HB0359_H_(Cmte_Sub)_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **Amendment No 1 to Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/pdf/sam/HB0359_S_Amend_01_to_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
4. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 359** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB0359.pdf)
5. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/HB/0300-0399/HB0359PS.htm)
6. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/pdf/sam/HB0359_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
7. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/HB/0300-0399/HB0359CS.htm)
8. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/HB/0300-0399/HB0359SG.htm)
## Votes
- Passage as Amended — **319** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **1191** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **483** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **1210** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Bell — primary (person)
- Brown (70th) — cosponsor (person)
- Crudup — cosponsor (person)
- Gibbs (72nd) — cosponsor (person)
- Holloway — cosponsor (person)
- Stamps — cosponsor (person)
- Yates — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-01-18T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Municipalities `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-28T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Read the Third Time `reading-3`
- **2021-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2021-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2021-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2021-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2021-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-02T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-10T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-10T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2021-03-12T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2021-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2021-03-22T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Rushing,Crudup,Stamps
- **2021-03-25T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Polk,Blount,Thompson
- **2021-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2021-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2021-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2021-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2021-03-30T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2021-03-30T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2021-04-18T05:00:00+00:00** Law W/out Governor's Signature `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a4dd241f-deb0-4ad1-8e6b-f7f030313b09`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).