republic-os/legislation/us/states/ms/2022/hb-971.md

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Bill	Driver's license; increase time period to renew expired license without examination.	Driver's license; increase time period to renew expired license without examination.	us/states/ms	Mississippi Legislature	2022	HB 971	Mississippi HB 971 (2022)	bill	Highways and Transportation Judiciary Division A Transportation	enacted	McKnight	6	24	5	2022-01-17T06:00:00+00:00	2022-04-14T05:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/90df72e5-e8d3-4409-bb1c-417a727b35ad	http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2022/pdf/House_authors/Busby.xml	30ea6dd761b7307a7718fa1be1ff6003d3d66e6b518893ef9c1b8f16d0a6ebc4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ms

Mississippi HB 971 (2022) — Driver's license; increase time period to renew expired license without examination.

Version chain

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

1. As Introduced (filed) — source
2. Amendment Report for House Bill No. 971 (committee substitute) — source
3. As Passed the lower (committee substitute) — source
4. Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote) (committee substitute) — source
5. Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
6. Current version (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passage — 52–0 (pass) · upper
• Passage — 120–0 (pass) · lower
• Passage as Amended — 52–0 (pass) · upper
• Adopt Conference Report — 114–6 (pass) · lower
• Adopt Conference Report — 52–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• McKnight — primary (person)
• Busby — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-17T06:00:00+00:00 Referred To Transportation referral-committee
• 2022-01-26T06:00:00+00:00 Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub committee-passage
• 2022-02-03T06:00:00+00:00 Committee Substitute Adopted substitution
• 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 Highways and Transportation;Judiciary, Division A referral-committee
• 2022-02-23T06:00:00+00:00 DR - TSDPAA: HI To JA
• 2022-03-01T06:00:00+00:00 Title Suff Do Pass As Amended committee-passage
• 2022-03-09T06:00:00+00:00 Passed passage
• 2022-03-09T06:00:00+00:00 Motion to Reconsider Entered
• 2022-03-09T06:00:00+00:00 Reconsidered
• 2022-03-09T06:00:00+00:00 Amended amendment-passage
• 2022-03-09T06:00:00+00:00 Passed As Amended passage
• 2022-03-10T06:00:00+00:00 Returned For Concurrence
• 2022-03-14T05:00:00+00:00 Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
• 2022-03-16T05:00:00+00:00 Conferees Named Busby,Massengill,McKnight
• 2022-03-22T05:00:00+00:00 Conferees Named Branning,DeLano,Williams
• 2022-03-25T05:00:00+00:00 Conference Report Filed
• 2022-03-25T05:00:00+00:00 Conference Report Filed
• 2022-03-27T05:00:00+00:00 Conference Report Adopted
• 2022-03-29T05:00:00+00:00 Conference Report Adopted
• 2022-03-31T05:00:00+00:00 Enrolled Bill Signed
• 2022-03-31T05:00:00+00:00 Enrolled Bill Signed
• 2022-04-14T05:00:00+00:00 Approved by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/90df72e5-e8d3-4409-bb1c-417a727b35ad. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).