republic-os/legislation/us/states/ms/2022/hb-720.md

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Bill	Mississippi Department of Employment Security; provide requirements related to fraud prevention, detection and recovery.	Mississippi Department of Employment Security; provide requirements related to fraud prevention, detection and recovery.	us/states/ms	Mississippi Legislature	2022	HB 720	Mississippi HB 720 (2022)	bill	Economic and Workforce Development Workforce Development	enacted	Bell	3	11	2	2022-01-17T06:00:00+00:00	2022-03-16T05:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/6af5f4fd-9461-493a-92e6-3028db942a6c	http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2022/pdf/House_authors/Bell_(21st).xml	534dda3d63c8a2ff2d97762ca466e8d1fd20bd75304b0a504fa356445729dc97	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ms

Mississippi HB 720 (2022) — Mississippi Department of Employment Security; provide requirements related to fraud prevention, detection and recovery.

Version chain

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

1. As Introduced (filed) — source
2. As Passed the lower (committee substitute) — source
3. Current version (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passage — 119–1 (pass) · lower
• Passage — 52–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bell — primary (person)
• Gunn — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-17T06:00:00+00:00 Referred To Workforce Development referral-committee
• 2022-01-31T06:00:00+00:00 Title Suff Do Pass committee-passage
• 2022-02-03T06:00:00+00:00 Passed passage
• 2022-02-04T06:00:00+00:00 Transmitted To Senate introduction
• 2022-02-11T06:00:00+00:00 Referred To Economic and Workforce Development referral-committee
• 2022-02-24T06:00:00+00:00 Title Suff Do Pass committee-passage
• 2022-03-07T06:00:00+00:00 Passed passage
• 2022-03-08T06:00:00+00:00 Returned For Enrolling
• 2022-03-09T06:00:00+00:00 Enrolled Bill Signed
• 2022-03-10T06:00:00+00:00 Enrolled Bill Signed
• 2022-03-16T05:00:00+00:00 Approved by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6af5f4fd-9461-493a-92e6-3028db942a6c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).