All Bills - Mississippi 2025 Regular Session
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Mississippi 2025 Regular Session
Mississippi Senate Bill SB2378
Introduced
1/20/25
Refer
1/20/25
Failed
2/4/25
An Act To Create Section 5-3-79.1, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Empower The Peer Committee To Institute A Program Of Reviewing Selected Administrative Rules; And For Related Purposes.
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Mississippi 2025 Regular Session
Mississippi Senate Bill SB2379
Introduced
1/20/25
Refer
1/20/25
Failed
2/4/25
An Act To Create The Mississippi Mobile Sports Wagering Act; To Provide Definitions For The Act; To Provide That "online Race Book" And "online Sports Pool" Betting Shall Be Legal In This State; To Require A Platform That Operates An Online Sports Pool Or Online Race Book To A Manufacturer's And Distributor's License; To Authorize Licensed Gaming Establishments To Contract With No More Than One Platform; To Provide That A Platform Shall Only Accept Wagers From Players Located In Mississippi; To Require The Platform Contract For Geofencing And Age Verification; To Prohibit Play By Any Person Under The Age Of 21; To Impose A Fee On The Gross Revenue Of A Licensed Gaming Establishment, Including A Platform That Operates An Online Sports Pool, Online Race Book Or Both On Behalf Of The Holder Of A Gaming License, Which Is Derived From The Activities Authorized In This Act And To Exempt Such Gross Revenue From Certain Fees Imposed Or Authorized Under The Mississippi Gaming Control Act And Any Local And Private Law Of The State Of Mississippi; To Provide For The Distribution Of Proceeds Collected From Such Fee To The Mississippi Hope Scholarship Fund; To Amend Sections 75-76-67 And 97-33-17, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Conform To The Preceding Sections; To Amend Section 75-76-5, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Require The Licensed Gaming Establishment To Display The License Of The Platform It Is Contracted With; To Amend Section 75-76-89, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Clarify The Inclusion Of Online Race Book And Sports Book For Gaming Licensing Outside Of A Premises; To Bring Forward Section 75-76-91, Mississippi Code Of 1972, Which Requires The Licensed Gaming Establishment To Display The License Of The Platform It Is Contracted With, For Purposes Of Amendment; To Bring Forward Section 75-76-203, Mississippi Code Of 1972, Which Provides An Exception For An Office In This State For Platforms, For Purposes Of Amendment; To Bring Forward Sections 75-76-33, 75-76-55, 75-76-101, 75-76-205 And 75-76-211, Mississippi Code Of 1972, Which Regulate Corporate Gaming Establishments, For Purposes Of Amendment; To Amend Sections 75-76-175, 75-76-177 And 97-33-27, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Clarify Certain Provisions Relating To Credit Instruments And Gaming License Fees; To Bring Forward Sections 97-33-8 And 97-33-305, Mississippi Code Of 1972, Which Regulate Gaming Establishments, For Purposes Of Amendment; To Amend Sections 75-76-79 And 97-33-25, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Clarify Certain Provisions Relating To Dockside Gaming; To Amend Sections 97-33-1 And 97-33-7, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Restrict Certain Types Of Wagers; To Establish The Mississippi Hope Scholarship Program Fund To Be Operated By The Ihl Office Of Student Financial Aid To Receive And Disburse The Proceeds Of The Mobile Sports Wagering Licensure Fees; To Create The "mobile Sports Wagering Tax Fund" And Provide For Its Distribution; And For Related Purposes.
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Mississippi 2025 Regular Session
Mississippi Senate Bill SB2380
Introduced
1/20/25
Refer
1/20/25
Failed
2/4/25
An Act To Require The Office Of The State Auditor To Perform A 50-year Comparative Review Of The Legislative Appropriations To The State's Two Land Grant Institutions; To Require The State Auditor To Submit A Report To The Legislature Detailing All Appropriations During The Review Period To Alcorn State University And Mississippi State University; And For Related Purposes.
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Mississippi 2025 Regular Session
Mississippi Senate Bill SB2381
Introduced
1/20/25
Refer
1/20/25
Engrossed
2/12/25
Refer
2/17/25
Failed
3/27/25
An Act To Define State Jurisdiction Over Public Trust Tidelands And The Authority Of The Secretary Of State To Approve Leases Located On Public Trust Tidelands; To Amend Sections 29-1-107, 29-15-1, 29-15-3, 29-15-5, 29-15-9 And 29-15-13, Mississippi Code Of 1972, And To Codify Section 29-15-2, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Declare Legislative Intent Relative To Public Trust Tidelands, To Clarify The Requirement Of A Separate Lease From The Secretary Of State To Rent Land On Public Trust Tidelands Property, To Clarify That The Lease Needed To Move On Shore Is One With The State Or The State Port At Gulfport, To Revise Definitions, To Provide That State-held Tidelands Subject To Public Trust Are Prescribed In Tidelands Maps And Boundary Agreements And Court Orders Confirming The Maps, To Confirm All Authority Over Tidelands In The State Unless Specifically Severed Or Given To A Specific State Agency Or Political Subdivision, To Confirm Authority, Management And Administrative Control Over Tidelands In The Secretary Of State, To Clarify That Only Specific Action By The Legislature Can Divest The Secretary Of State Of Such Management And Control; To Amend Sections 59-7-405 And 59-15-1, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide That The Local Governing Authority Shall Not Lease, Sublease, Rent Or Provide Access For Any Gaming Purposes Under This Authority; To Amend Sections 75-76-67, 87-1-5, 97-33-1, 97-33-7, 97-33-17, 97-33-25 And 97-33-27, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Define And Clarify The Authority Of The Mississippi Gaming Commission In Determining Legal Gaming Sites And Preliminary Site Approval And To Clarify Areas Authorized For Gaming Casino Operations And The Authority Of The Commission To Regulate Minimum Size, Minimum Improvements And Other Project Requirements; And For Related Purposes.
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Mississippi 2025 Regular Session
Mississippi Senate Bill SB2382
Introduced
1/20/25
Refer
1/20/25
Failed
2/4/25
An Act To Amend Section 31-7-13, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Exempt The Mississippi Department Of Finance And Administration From Certain Public Purchasing Requirements For The United States Semiquincentennial Commission Expenses; And For Related Purposes.
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Mississippi 2025 Regular Session
Mississippi Senate Bill SB2383
Introduced
1/20/25
Refer
1/20/25
Engrossed
2/11/25
Refer
2/14/25
Enrolled
3/17/25
Passed
3/21/25
An Act To Designate The Sweet Potato As The "official State Vegetable Of Mississippi"; And For Related Purposes.
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Mississippi 2025 Regular Session
Mississippi Senate Bill SB2384
Introduced
1/20/25
Refer
1/20/25
Failed
2/4/25
An Act To Amend Section 43-19-31 And To Codify Section 43-19-63, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Authorize And Direct The Mississippi Gaming Commission And The Mississippi Department Of Human Services To Promulgate Rules And Regulations Providing For The Withholding Of Gaming Winnings Of Persons Who Have Outstanding Child Support Arrearages; To Authorize Gaming Licensees To Charge An Administrative Fee Upon The Winnings Of Persons Who Have Outstanding Child Support Arrearages; And For Related Purposes.
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Mississippi 2025 Regular Session
Mississippi Senate Bill SB2385
Introduced
1/20/25
Refer
1/20/25
Failed
2/4/25
An Act To Amend Sections 97-33-303 And 97-33-305, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Clarify That Operators Of A Fantasy Contest Which Includes Set Benchmarks For Contestants To Pick Against Are Not In Violation Of The Mississippi Gambling Statutes; And For Related Purposes.
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Mississippi 2025 Regular Session
Mississippi Senate Bill SB2386
Introduced
1/20/25
Refer
1/20/25
Engrossed
2/7/25
Refer
2/14/25
Enrolled
4/7/25
An Act To Amend Section 43-13-115, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Make Certain Technical Amendments To The Provisions That Provide For Medicaid Eligibility And To Modify Age And Income And Eligibility Criteria To Reflect The Current Criteria; To Require The Division Of Medicaid To Submit A Waiver By July 1, 2025, To The Center For Medicare And Medicaid Services (cms) To Authorize The Division To Conduct Less Frequent Medical Redeterminations For Eligible Children Who Have Certain Long-term Or Chronic Conditions That Do Not Need To Be Reidentified Every Year; To Provide That Men Of Reproductive Age Are Eligible Under The Family Planning Program; To Conform With Federal Law To Allow Children In Foster Care To Be Eligible Until Their 26th Birthday; To Eliminate The Requirement That The Division Must Apply To Cms For Waivers To Provide Services For Certain Individuals Who Are End-stage Renal Disease Patients On Dialysis, Cancer Patients On Chemotherapy Or Organ Transplant Recipients On Antirejection Drugs; To Amend Section 43-13-117, Mississippi Code Of 1972, As Amended By House Bill No. 1401, 2025 Regular Session, To Make Certain Technical Amendments To The Provisions That Provide For Medicaid Services To Comply With Federal Law; To Eliminate The Option For Certain Rural Hospitals To Elect Against Reimbursement For Outpatient Hospital Services Using The Ambulatory Payment Classification (apc) Methodology; To Require The Division To Update The Case-mix Payment System And Fair Rental Reimbursement System As Necessary To Maintain Compliance With Federal Law; To Authorize The Division To Implement A Quality Or Value-based Component To The Nursing Facility Payment System; To Require The Division To Reimburse Pediatricians For Certain Primary Care Services As Defined By The Division At 100% Of The Rate Established Under Medicare; To Require The Division To Reimburse For One Pair Of Eyeglasses Every Two Years Instead Of Every Five Years For Certain Beneficiaries; To Authorize Oral Contraceptives To Be Prescribed And Dispensed In Twelve-month Supply Increments Under Family Planning Services; To Authorize The Division To Reimburse Ambulatory Surgical Care (asc) Based On 90% Of The Medicare Asc Payment System Rate In Effect July 1 Of Each Year As Set By Cms; To Authorize The Division To Provide Reimbursement For Devices Used For The Reduction Of Snoring And Obstructive Sleep Apnea; To Provide That No Later Than December 1, 2025, The Division Shall, In Consultation With The Mississippi Hospital Association, The Mississippi Healthcare Collaborative, The University Of Mississippi Medical Center And Any Other Hospitals In The State, Provide Recommendations To The Chairmen Of The Senate And House Medicaid Committees On Methods For Allowing Physicians Or Other Eligible Providers Employed Or Contracted At Any Hospital In The State To Participate In Any Medicare Upper Payment Limits (upl) Program, Allowable Delivery System Or Provider Payment Initiative Established By The Division, Subject To Federal Limitations On Collection Of Provider Taxes; To Provide That The Division Shall, In Consultation With The Mississippi Hospital Association, The Mississippi Healthcare Collaborative, The University Of Mississippi Medical Center And Any Other Hospitals In The State, Study The Feasibility Of Offering Alternative Models For Distribution Of Medical Claims And Supplemental Payments For Inpatient And Outpatient Hospital Services And To Study The Feasibility Of The Division Establishing A Medicare Upper Payment Limits Program To Physicians Employed Or Contracted By Hospitals Who Are Able To Participate In The Program Through An Intergovernmental Transfer; To Update And Clarify Language About The Division's Transition From The Medicare Upper Payment Limits (upl) Program To The Mississippi Hospital Access Program (mhap); To Provide That The Division Shall Maximize Total Federal Funding For Mhap, Upl And Other Supplemental Payment Programs In Effect For State Fiscal Year 2025 And Shall Not Change The Methodologies, Formulas, Models Or Preprints Used To Calculate The Distribution Of Supplemental Payments To Hospitals From Those Methodologies, Formulas, Models Or Preprints In Effect And As Approved By The Centers For Medicare And Medicaid Services For State Fiscal Year 2025; To Authorize The Division To Contract With The State Department Of Health To Provide For A Perinatal High Risk Management/infant Services System For Any Eligible Beneficiary Who Cannot Receive Such Services Under A Different Program; To Authorize The Division To Reimburse For Services At Certified Community Behavioral Health Centers; To Extend To July 1, 2027, The Date Of The Repealer On The Provision Of Law That Provides That The Division Shall Reimburse For Outpatient Hospital Services Provided To Eligible Medicaid Beneficiaries Under The Age Of 21 Years By Border City University-affiliated Pediatric Teaching Hospitals, Which Was Repealed By Operation Of Law In 2024; To Limit The Payment For Providing Services To Mississippi Medicaid Beneficiaries Under The Age Of 21 Years Who Are Treated By A Border City University-affiliated Pediatric Teaching Hospital; To Require The Division To Develop And Implement A Method For Reimbursement Of Autism Spectrum Disorder Services Based On A Continuum Of Care For Best Practices In Medically Necessary Early Intervention Treatment; To Require The Division To Reimburse For Preparticipation Physical Evaluations; To Require The Division To Reimburse For United States Food And Drug Administration Approved Medications For Chronic Weight Management Or For Additional Conditions In The Discretion Of The Medical Provider; To Require The Division To Provide Coverage And Reimbursement For Any Nonstatin Medication Approved By The United States Food And Drug Administration That Has A Unique Indication To Reduce The Risk Of A Major Cardiovascular Event In Primary Prevention And Secondary Prevention Patients; To Require The Division To Provide Coverage And Reimbursement For Any Nonopioid Medication Approved By The United States Food And Drug Administration For The Treatment Or Management Of Pain; To Reduce The Length Of Notice The Division Must Provide The Medicaid Committee Chairmen For Proposed Rate Changes And To Provide That Such Legislative Notice May Be Expedited; To Require The Division To Reimburse Ambulance Transportation Service Providers That Provide An Assessment, Triage Or Treatment For Eligible Medicaid Beneficiaries; To Set Certain Reimbursement Levels For Such Providers; To Extend To July 1, 2029, The Date Of The Repealer On Such Section; To Amend Section 43-13-121, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Authorize The Division To Extend Its Medicaid Enterprise System And Fiscal Agent Services, Including All Related Components And Services, Contracts In Effect On June 30, 2025, For An Additional Two-year Period; To Authorize The Division To Enter Into A Two-year Contract With A Vendor To Provide Support Of The Division's Eligibility System; To Reduce The Length Of Notice The Division Must Provide The Medicaid Committee Chairmen For A Proposed State Plan Amendment And To Provide That Such Legislative Notice May Be Expedited; To Amend Section 43-13-305, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide That When A Third-party Payor Requires Prior Authorization For An Item Or Service Furnished To A Medicaid Recipient, The Payor Shall Accept Authorization Provided By The Division Of Medicaid That The Item Or Service Is Covered Under The State Plan As If Such Authorization Were The Prior Authorization Made By The Third-party Payor For Such Item Or Service; To Amend Section 43-13-117.7, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide That The Division Shall Not Reimburse Or Provide Coverage For Gender Transition Procedures For Any Person; To Amend Section 43-13-145, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide That A Quarterly Hospital Assessment May Exceed The Assessment In The Prior Quarter By More Than $3,750,000.00 If Such Increase Is To Maximize Federal Funds That Are Available To Reimburse Hospitals For Services Provided Under New Programs For Hospitals, For Increased Supplemental Payment Programs For Hospitals Or To Assist With State-matching Funds As Authorized By The Legislature; To Authorize The Division To Reduce Or Eliminate The Portion Of The Hospital Assessment Applicable To Long-term Acute Care Hospitals And Rehabilitation Hospitals If Cms Waives Certain Requirements; To Create New Section 41-140-1, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Define Terms; To Create New Section 41-140-3, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Require The State Department Of Health To Develop And Promulgate Written Educational Materials And Information For Health Care Professionals And Patients About Maternal Mental Health Conditions; To Require Hospitals Providing Birth Services To Provide Such Educational Materials To New Parents And, As Appropriate, Other Family Members; To Require That Such Materials Be Provided To Any Woman Who Presents With Signs Of A Maternal Mental Health Disorder; To Create New Section 41-140-5, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Require Any Health Care Provider Or Nurse Midwife Who Renders Postnatal Care Or Pediatric Infant Care To Ensure That The Postnatal Care Patient Or Birthing Mother Of The Pediatric Infant Care Patient, As Applicable, Is Offered Screening For Postpartum Depression And To Provide Appropriate Referrals If Such Patient Or Mother Is Deemed Likely To Be Suffering From Postpartum Depression; To Amend Section 43-13-107, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Establish A Medicaid Advisory Committee And Beneficiary Advisory Committee As Required Pursuant To Federal Regulations; To Provide That All Members Of The Medical Care Advisory Committee Serving On January 1, 2025, Shall Be Selected To Serve On The Medicaid Advisory Committee, And Such Members Shall Serve Until July 1, 2028; And For Related Purposes.
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Mississippi 2025 Regular Session
Mississippi Senate Bill SB2387
Introduced
1/20/25
Refer
1/20/25
Failed
2/4/25
An Act To Amend Section 43-13-117, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide That The Division Of Medicaid Shall Increase The Reimbursement Amounts Paid For Prescribed Pediatric Extended Care Centers Services By 20% Above The Amounts In Effect On June 30, 2025; And For Related Purposes.
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Mississippi 2025 Regular Session
Mississippi Senate Bill SB2388
Introduced
1/20/25
Refer
1/20/25
Engrossed
2/5/25
Refer
2/11/25
Failed
3/4/25
An Act To Provide That The Division Of Medicaid, In Establishing And Maintaining The Preferred Drug List, Shall Ensure That No Nonopioid Drug Approved By The United States Food And Drug Administration For The Treatment Or Management Of Pain Shall Be Disadvantaged Or Discouraged With Respect To Coverage Relative To Any Opioid Or Narcotic Drug For The Treatment Or Management Of Pain On Such Preferred Drug List; To Provide That The Division, In Establishing And Maintaining The Preferred Drug List, Shall Ensure That No Nonstatin Medication That Has A Unique Indication To Reduce The Risk Of A Major Cardiovascular Event In Primary And Secondary Prevention Patients Shall Be Disadvantaged Or Discouraged With Respect To Coverage Relating To Any Drug For The Treatment Or Management Of Cardiovascular Events On Such Preferred Drug List; And For Related Purposes.
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Mississippi 2025 Regular Session
Mississippi Senate Bill SB2389
Introduced
1/20/25
Refer
1/20/25
Failed
2/4/25
An Act To Bring Forward Sections 41-85-5, 43-11-1, 43-11-13, 47-5-28, 47-7-4 And 41-7-191, Mississippi Code Of 1972, Which Are Various Provisions Related To Medicaid, Corrections, Certificates Of Need And A Special Care Facility For Paroled Inmates, For The Purpose Of Possible Amendment; To Amend Section 43-13-117.6 Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Direct The Division Of Medicaid To Apply To The Federal Center For Medicaid Services (cms) For Necessary Waivers To Provide Federal Funding Under The Medicaid Program For Providing Reimbursement For Authorized Services To Prison Inmates Who Are 100% Medicaid Eligible In The Period Covering 30 Days Prior To Their Release On Parole; And For Related Purposes.
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Mississippi 2025 Regular Session
Mississippi Senate Bill SB2390
Introduced
1/20/25
Refer
1/20/25
Failed
2/4/25
An Act To Amend Section 43-13-115.1, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Revise The Criteria For Presumptive Eligibility For Medicaid For Pregnant Women; To Conform To Federal Law And Regulations; And For Related Purposes.
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Mississippi 2025 Regular Session
Mississippi Senate Bill SB2391
Introduced
1/20/25
Refer
1/20/25
Failed
2/4/25
An Act To Amend Section 43-13-145, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Revise Hospital Tax Assessment Rates To Be A Percentage Of Net Revenue; To Provide That A Licensed Psychiatric Hospital Shall Be Assessed In The Amount Of 40% Of Net Patient Revenue, That Licensed Hospitals, Other Than Psychiatric Hospitals, Shall Be Assessed In The Amount Of 1% Of Net Patient Revenue, Up To A Maximum Of $20,000,000.00 Of Net Patient Revenue, In The Amount Of 9.28% Of Net Patient Revenue In Excess Of $20,000,000.00 Up To A Maximum Of $200,000,000.00 Of Net Patient Revenue With Additional Assessment Rates For Revenue In Excess Of $200,000,000.00, And That Hospitals Operated By The United States Department Of Veterans Affairs And Hospitals Operated By The State Department Of Mental Health Shall Be Exempt From Such Assessments; To Delete And Define Terms; And For Related Purposes.
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Mississippi 2025 Regular Session
Mississippi Senate Bill SB2392
Introduced
1/20/25
Refer
1/20/25
Engrossed
2/13/25
Refer
2/18/25
Enrolled
3/10/25
Passed
3/12/25
An Act To Amend Section 41-19-33, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Authorize Regional Commissions, As Established In Section 41-19-33, To Provide Services Through Enhanced Certification As A Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (ccbhc); To Clarify Responsibilities Of Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics; To Authorize And Direct The Mississippi Department Of Mental Health And The Division Of Medicaid To Submit An Application To The Federal Substance Abuse And Mental Health Services Administration (samhsa) To Join The Ccbhc Demonstration Grant At The Next Available Application Period; To Require That The Ccbhc System Be Consistent With The Demonstration Program Established By Section 223 Of The Protecting Access To Medicare Act (pama) Of 2014 And Other Applicable Federal Laws Governing The Ccbhc Model; To Provide That The Department Of Mental Health Shall Be Responsible For Certifying And Monitoring Compliance Of Ccbhc Clinics And That The Division Of Medicaid Shall Be Responsible For Establishing A Prospective Payment System (pps) To Fund The Ccbhc Program; And For Related Purposes.