Mississippi House · District 97

Sam Mims

Republican

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Votes with the Speaker 96% On 278 contested votes where both voted · 99% on all votes Votes with own party 99% Partisan rank: 6 of 120 in the House (tied with 19 others) Didn't vote at roll call 3% 62 of 2,367 roll calls

Statewide bills passed 34 75 sponsored · 34 became law · Rank 3 of 120 in the House Local and private bills passed 1 2 sponsored · 1 became law

Where they sit

Every current House member, placed from most liberal to most conservative by how they voted on contested bills.

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Sam Mims's seat is marked. Seats run from most liberal (left) to most conservative (right), by contested floor votes. Color shows how often each member crosses party lines toward the middle on votes that divide the parties: solid blue or red means almost never, and purple means on at least 1 in 5 of those votes. Gray seats are members too new to score. How these numbers work

Mississippi House64thpercentile

More conservative than 63% of the Mississippi House.

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44th most conservative of 120

The scores

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Votes with the Speaker

96%

Each tick is a current House member, by party; the dot is Sam Mims.

On 278 contested votes where both voted99% on all 2,303 votes where both voted

Votes with own party

99%

Each tick is a current House member, by party; the dot is Sam Mims.

On 161 party-line votesPartisan rank: 6 of 120 in the House (tied with 19 others)5 House members vote with their party more often

Bills

The bills Sam Mims sponsored this term and how far they got. Co-sponsors aren’t counted.

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Bills: Sam Mims
	Statewide	Local and private
Sponsored	75	2
Passed both chambers	34	1
Became law	34	1
Vetoed by the Governor	0	0

Rank by statewide bills passed: Rank 3 of 120 in the House · 3 of 77 Republicans

A bill's sponsors are its principal authors, as the Legislature lists them; co-authors aren't counted. Local and private bills (for one county, city or district) are counted and shown apart, not ranked.

Bills that passed both chambers

Bills that passed both chambers: Sam Mims
Bill	Type	Result	Final action
HB 1924 (2026 Regular Session) Appropriation; Attorney General	Statewide	Became law	April 15, 2026
HB 1931 (2026 Regular Session) Appropriation; Supreme Court, Court of Appeals and trial judges services	Statewide	Became law	April 8, 2026
HB 1928 (2026 Regular Session) Appropriation; Legislative expenses	Statewide	Became law	April 7, 2026
HB 1930 (2026 Regular Session) Appropriation; State Public Defender, Office of	Statewide	Became law	April 6, 2026
HB 1929 (2026 Regular Session) Appropriation; Public Employees' Retirement System	Statewide	Became law	April 6, 2026
HB 1927 (2026 Regular Session) Appropriation; District attorneys and staff	Statewide	Became law	April 6, 2026
HB 1932 (2026 Regular Session) Appropriation; Veterans' Home Purchase Board	Statewide	Became law	March 30, 2026
HB 1923 (2026 Regular Session) Appropriation; Athletic Commission	Statewide	Became law	March 25, 2026
HB 1933 (2026 Regular Session) Appropriation; reappropriation, DFA - Bureau of Building - FY 2027	Statewide	Became law	March 19, 2026
HB 1926 (2026 Regular Session) Appropriation; Capital Post-Conviction Counsel, Office of	Statewide	Became law	March 19, 2026
HB 1925 (2026 Regular Session) Appropriation; Auctioneers Commission	Statewide	Became law	March 19, 2026
HB 40 (2025 First Extraordinary Session) Appropriation; reappropriation, DFA - Bureau of Building - FY 2025	Statewide	Became law	June 17, 2025
HB 38 (2025 First Extraordinary Session) Appropriation; Supreme Court, Court of Appeals and trial judges services	Statewide	Became law	June 17, 2025
HB 35 (2025 First Extraordinary Session) Appropriation; Legislative expenses	Statewide	Became law	June 17, 2025
HB 34 (2025 First Extraordinary Session) Appropriation; District attorneys and staff	Statewide	Became law	June 17, 2025
HB 32 (2025 First Extraordinary Session) Appropriation; Attorney General	Statewide	Became law	June 17, 2025
HB 39 (2025 First Extraordinary Session) Appropriation; Veterans' Home Purchase Board	Statewide	Became law	June 4, 2025
HB 37 (2025 First Extraordinary Session) Appropriation; State Public Defender, Office of	Statewide	Became law	June 4, 2025
HB 36 (2025 First Extraordinary Session) Appropriation; Public Employees' Retirement System	Statewide	Became law	June 4, 2025
HB 33 (2025 First Extraordinary Session) Appropriation; Capital Post-Conviction Counsel, Office of	Statewide	Became law	June 4, 2025
HB 31 (2025 First Extraordinary Session) Appropriation; Athletic Commission	Statewide	Became law	June 4, 2025
HB 1758 (2025 Regular Session) Appropriation; Auctioneers Commission	Statewide	Became law	March 24, 2025
HB 1818 (2024 Regular Session) Appropriation; Public Employees' Retirement System	Statewide	Became law	May 10, 2024
HB 1817 (2024 Regular Session) Appropriation; Legislative expenses	Statewide	Became law	May 10, 2024
HB 1812 (2024 Regular Session) Appropriation; Attorney General	Statewide	Became law	May 10, 2024
HB 1820 (2024 Regular Session) Appropriation; Supreme Court, Court of Appeals and trial judges services	Statewide	Became law	May 9, 2024
HB 1819 (2024 Regular Session) Appropriation; State Public Defender, Office of	Statewide	Became law	May 9, 2024
HB 1815 (2024 Regular Session) Appropriation; District attorneys and staff	Statewide	Became law	May 9, 2024
HB 1814 (2024 Regular Session) Appropriation; Capital Post-Conviction Counsel, Office of	Statewide	Became law	May 9, 2024
HB 1821 (2024 Regular Session) Appropriation; Veterans' Home Purchase Board	Statewide	Became law	May 8, 2024
HB 1811 (2024 Regular Session) Appropriation; Athletic Commission	Statewide	Became law	May 8, 2024
HB 1723 (2024 Regular Session) Pike County; authorize to construct or acquire county jail anywhere in county and authorize certain lease-purchase arrangement	Local and private	Became law	April 30, 2024
HB 1816 (2024 Regular Session) Appropriation, Reappropriation, DFA - Bureau of Building - FY 2024	Statewide	Became law	April 23, 2024
HB 1813 (2024 Regular Session) Appropriation; Auctioneers Commission	Statewide	Became law	April 20, 2024
HB 1129 (2024 Regular Session) Office of Mississippi Physician Workforce; transfer from UMMC to the State Department of Health	Statewide	Became law	April 17, 2024

Budget projects

Mississippi's appropriation bills don't say which legislator asked for an item, so there's no budget figure for Mississippi legislators.

Contested votes where they split

11 against the Speaker; 11 against most of their party.

Contested votes where they split: Sam Mims
Date	Bill and motion	Their vote	Speaker	Most of their party
March 10, 2026	SB 2436: Black bear hunting season; require MDWFP to create and issue harvest tags for through a lottery system Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Nay
Feb. 10, 2026	HB 672: Alcoholic beverages; authorize governing authorities of wet jurisdictions to authorize package retail sales on Sunday Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
May 28, 2025	HB 43: Appropriation; Educational Television, Authority for Passage	Yea	Yea	Nay (split)
May 28, 2025	SB 2050: Special funds; revise and create certain within the State Treasury and transfer funds to Passage	Yea	Yea	Nay (split)
Feb. 13, 2025	HB 927: Midwifery; provide for licensure and regulation of Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
Feb. 13, 2025	HB 1157: Used motor vehicle dealers; require continuing education as a condition of application for licensure renewal Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Nay
Feb. 12, 2025	HB 849: CRNAs; exempt from collaborative agreement, and license anesthesiologist assistants Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
Feb. 11, 2025	HB 92: Alcoholic beverages; authorize governing authorities of wet jurisdictions to authorize package retail sales on Sunday Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
March 13, 2024	HB 1222: Laser hair removal; restrict the practice of to certain health professionals Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
March 12, 2024	HB 41: Podiatrist; authorize to perform ankle surgery when meet certain requirements Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
March 6, 2024	HB 37: Physical therapists; revise circumstances and criteria under which they may implement treatment without a referral Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
March 1, 2024	HB 329: Alcoholic beverages; authorize local authorities of wet jurisdiction to permit package retail sales on Sunday Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
March 1, 2024	HB 328: Alcoholic beverages; increase number of package retailer's permits a person may own Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)

Every roll call

How Sam Mims voted on each of the 2,367 floor roll calls while in office, newest first.

Every roll call: Sam Mims
Date	Vote	Their vote	Most of their party	Speaker	Yeas–nays
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Contact, committees and caucuses

Contact

Official page: billstatus.ls.state.ms.us
Email: smims@house.ms.gov
Capitol office: State Capitol 400 High St., Jackson, MS 39201
601-359-3340
District office: P.O. Box 1018, Jackson, MS 39215

Committees

Appropriations D Chair
Appropriations A
Enrolled Bills
Medicaid
Public Health and Human Services

Contact details and committee assignments from Open States' data on the Mississippi Legislature, which it collects from the chambers' websites, as of Oct. 15, 2026.

Source: the Mississippi Legislature's roll-call records, Jan. 2, 2024 to July 16, 2026. How these numbers work · Corrections