HB 1227 Mississippi House · 2025 Regular Session

Memorial bridge; designate the Strong River Bridge in Simpson County as the Badger-Malone-Igleharte Memorial Bridge."

HB 1227 designates the Strong River Bridge on Mississippi Highway 149 in Simpson County as the "Badger-Malone-Igleharte Memorial Bridge" to honor Charles Badger, Kevin Malone, and Charles Igleharte, who died in a bridge collapse there on October 16, 2024. The Mississippi Department of Transportation will install and maintain signs identifying the bridge with this name. The bill takes effect July 1, 2025, and is purely commemorative with no policy changes.

Bill status died 3 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Feb 2025

Committee Review

Mar 2025

House Passage

Feb 2025

Senate Passage

Governor

Introduced Feb 13, 2025 Last action Mar 7, 2025

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What changed between versions

As Introduced → Current version · 3 edits

MINOR

This bill designates the Strong River Bridge as the 'Badger-Malone-Igleharte Memorial Bridge' in honor of three victims of the October 2024 bridge collapse. The primary change is the addition of a title header and formatting updates to reflect the bill's passage through the House, while the substantive content regarding the bridge designation and effective date remains identical to the original version.

Scope change

No substantive change to the bill's scope or applicability; changes are primarily formatting and header additions reflecting the bill's legislative status.

TECHNICAL

Added header information including 'HB1227 (As Passed the House)' and session details to indicate the bill's current legislative status.

Added a title section with the bill's purpose statement in a different format than the original version.

Reformatted the bill text from the original 'As Introduced' version to reflect the 'As Passed the House' version, with minor spacing and character encoding differences.

Floor votes · House Feb 12, 2025

How they voted

117–0

Passed · 2 other

Total votes 119

Feb 12, 2025

D Democratic39

39 Yea

100% Yea

I Independent2

2 Yea

100% Yea

R Republican78

76 Yea 2

97% Yea

Vote distribution

All Yea All Nay Mixed No data

Full legislative history

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Committee

Mar 7, 2025

Committee

Recommitted to Committee

upper

Mar 4, 2025

Upper · Passed

Title Suff Do Pass

upper

Feb 17, 2025

Committee

Referred To Highways and Transportation

upper

Feb 13, 2025

Introduced

Transmitted To Senate

lower

Feb 12, 2025

Lower · Passed

Passed

lower

Jan 29, 2025

Lower · Passed

Title Suff Do Pass

lower

Jan 20, 2025

Committee

Referred To Transportation

lower

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors