All Bills - Mississippi 2025 Regular Session
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Mississippi 2025 Regular Session
Mississippi Senate Bill SB2858
Introduced
1/20/25
Refer
1/20/25
Failed
2/4/25
An Act To Bring Forward Sections 27-31-1, 27-31-3, 27-31-17, 27-31-101, 27-31-113, 27-33-21, 27-35-4, 27-35-49 And 27-35-50, Mississippi Code Of 1972, For The Purpose Of Possible Amendment; And For Related Purposes.
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Mississippi 2025 Regular Session
Mississippi Senate Bill SB2859
Introduced
1/20/25
Refer
1/20/25
Failed
2/4/25
An Act To Bring Forward Sections 27-41-55, 27-41-57, 27-41-59, 27-41-61, 27-41-63, 27-41-65, 27-41-67, 27-41-69, 27-41-71, 27-41-73, 27-41-75, 27-41-77, 27-41-79, 27-41-81, 27-41-83, 27-41-85, 27-41-87, 27-41-89 And 27-45-27, Mississippi Code Of 1972, For The Purpose Of Possible Amendment; And For Related Purposes.
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Mississippi 2025 Regular Session
Mississippi Senate Bill SB2860
Introduced
1/20/25
Refer
1/20/25
Engrossed
2/10/25
Refer
2/14/25
Failed
3/27/25
An Act To Amend Section 31-7-13.2, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide Certain Alternative Procedures For Procurements By Existing Or Future Mississippi Institutions Of Higher Learning Or Their Related Entities, Joint Ventures Or Subsidiaries Governed By Or In Connection With The Named Institutions, Under The "construction Manager At Risk" Method Of Project Delivery; To Bring Forward Section 31-7-13, Mississippi Code Of 1972, For The Purpose Of Possible Amendment; And For Related Purposes.
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Mississippi 2025 Regular Session
Mississippi Senate Bill SB2861
Introduced
1/20/25
Refer
1/20/25
Engrossed
2/6/25
Refer
2/17/25
Failed
3/4/25
An Act To Create The Mississippi Work And Save Program, Which Is A Retirement Savings Program Sponsored By The State For Certain Employers Who Do Not Already Offer A Retirement Plan That Will Allow Those Employers To Offer Eligible Employees The Voluntary Choice To Contribute To An Individual Retirement Account (ira) Through A Payroll Deduction; To Provide The Powers, Authority And Duties Of The State Treasurer; To Prescribe The Requirements For The Program; To Provide That The Ira To Which Contributions Are Made Will Be A Roth Ira And The Standard Package Will Be A Roth Ira With A Target Date Fund Investment And A Specified Contribution Percentage; To Provide Certain Protection From Liability For Employers In The Program And For The State; To Provide For The Confidentiality Of Participant And Account Information; To Create The Mississippi Work And Save Administrative Fund As A Special Fund In The State Treasury; To Provide That Monies In The Fund Shall Be Expended Upon Appropriation Of The Legislature, For The Purposes Authorized In This Act; And For Related Purposes.
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Mississippi 2025 Regular Session
Mississippi Senate Bill SB2862
Introduced
1/20/25
Refer
1/20/25
Failed
2/26/25
An Act To Amend Section 27-65-111, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Establish A Severe Weather Preparedness Sales Tax Holiday On The Third Friday And The Following Saturday In February, During Which Retail Sales Of Certain Items To Be Used For Severe Weather Preparedness Will Be Exempt From The State Sales Tax; And For Related Purposes.
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Mississippi 2025 Regular Session
Mississippi Senate Bill SB2863
Introduced
1/20/25
Refer
1/20/25
Engrossed
2/12/25
Refer
2/17/25
Failed
3/4/25
An Act To Amend Section 25-14-5, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Allow The Mississippi Deferred Compensation Plan And Trust To Offer Roth Accounts And Other After-tax Contribution Vehicles; To Provide That A Participant's Roth Or Other Allowable After-tax Contribution Into A Deferred Compensation Account Shall Be Treated By The Employer As Includable In The Participant's Income At The Time The Participant Would Have Received That Amount In Compensation If The Participant Had Not Made A Deferred Election; To Provide That The Mississippi Deferred Compensation Plan And Trust Shall Comply With Any Qualified Domestic Relations Order Under The Internal Revenue Code Establishing The Right Of An Alternate Payee To All Or A Portion Of A Participant's Benefit Under The Plan; To Amend Section 25-14-15, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Conform; And For Related Purposes.
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Mississippi 2025 Regular Session
Mississippi Senate Bill SB2864
Introduced
1/20/25
Refer
1/20/25
Failed
2/4/25
An Act To Amend Section 41-4-3, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Revise The Requirements For Appointment Of The Members Of The State Board Of Mental Health; To Amend Section 41-4-7, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Delete The Requirement For The Executive Director Of The State Department Of Mental Health To Be Confirmed By The Senate And To Serve For A Term; And For Related Purposes.
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Mississippi 2025 Regular Session
Mississippi Senate Bill SB2865
Introduced
1/20/25
Refer
1/20/25
Failed
2/4/25
An Act To Amend Section 73-29-3, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Revise The Definition Of The Term "polygraph Examiner" Within The Polygraph Examiners Law; And For Related Purposes.
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Mississippi 2025 Regular Session
Mississippi Senate Bill SB2866
Introduced
1/20/25
Refer
1/20/25
Engrossed
2/5/25
Refer
2/14/25
Failed
3/14/25
An Act To Amend Section 41-3-16, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Add The Pearl River Valley Water Supply District To The List Of Entities That May Be Assisted By The Local Governments And Rural Water Systems Improvements Revolving Loan And Grant Program Administered By The State Department Of Health; And For Related Purposes.
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Mississippi 2025 Regular Session
Mississippi Senate Bill SB2867
Introduced
1/20/25
Refer
1/20/25
Engrossed
2/12/25
Refer
2/17/25
Enrolled
3/20/25
Vetoed
3/27/25
Refer
3/28/25
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, 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 Direct The Division To Allow Physicians At Any Hospital To Participate In Any Medicare Upper Payment Limits Program (upl), 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 May, In Consultation With The Mississippi Hospital Association, Develop Alternative Models For Distribution Of Medical Claims And Supplemental Payments For Inpatient And Outpatient Hospital Services; To Update And Clarify Language About The Division's Transition From The Medicare Upper Payment Limits Program (upl) 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 That 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 Twenty-one 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 Twenty-one 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 Additional Five-year Periods If The System Continues To Meet The Needs Of The State, The Annual Cost Continues To Be A Fair Market Value, And The Rate Of Increase Is No More Than Five Percent Or The Current Consumer Price Index, Whichever Is Less; 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 Amend Section 43-13-115.1, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Remove The Requirement That A Pregnant Woman Must Provide Proof Of Her Pregnancy And Documentation Of Her Monthly Family Income When Seeking A Determination Of Presumptive Eligibility; 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 SB2868
Introduced
1/20/25
Refer
1/20/25
Failed
2/4/25
An Act To Create New Section 83-9-47, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Prohibit Insurers Providing Prescription Drug Coverage From Requiring Or Imposing Any Step Therapy Protocol With Respect To Drugs Approved By The United States Food And Drug Administration (fda) For The Treatment Of Postpartum Depression; To Define "insurer"; To Amend Section 43-13-117, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Prohibit The Division Of Medicaid And Certain Managed Care Entities From Requiring Or Imposing Any Step Therapy Protocol With Respect To A Drug That Is Approved By The United States Fda For The Treatment Of Postpartum Depression; 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 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 Create New Section 83-9-48, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Define "insurer" And Require Insurers To Provide Coverage For Postpartum Depression Screening; And For Related Purposes.
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Mississippi 2025 Regular Session
Mississippi Senate Bill SB2869
Introduced
1/20/25
Refer
1/20/25
Engrossed
2/11/25
Refer
2/17/25
Failed
3/31/25
An Act To Amend Sections 67-11-1, 67-11-3, 67-11-5, 67-11-7, 67-11-9, 67-11-11, 67-1-5, 67-1-13, 67-1-37, 67-1-41, 67-1-45, 67-1-73, 27-4-3, 27-71-21, 27-77-1 And 27-77-17, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Add Craft Spirits To Mississippi Native Spirit Laws; To Amend Sections 67-1-51 And 27-71-5, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Amend Permitting Requirements To Conform; And For Related Purposes.
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Mississippi 2025 Regular Session
Mississippi Senate Bill SB2870
Introduced
1/20/25
Refer
1/20/25
Failed
2/4/25
An Act To Enact The Mississippi Families' Rights And Responsibilities Act To Provide That The State, Any Political Subdivision Of The State, Or Any Other Governmental Entity Shall Not Substantially Burden The Fundamental Right Of A Parent To Direct The Upbringing, Education, Health Care And Mental Health Of That Parent's Child Without Demonstrating That The Burden Is Required By A Compelling Governmental Interest Of The Highest Order As Applied To The Parent And The Child And Is The Least Restrictive Means Of Furthering That Compelling Governmental Interest; To Require The Consent Of A Parent Or Guardian For Certain Actions, Including Prescribing Medication Or Performing Surgery; To Set Certain Exceptions To The Consent Requirement; To Provide That No State Employee Shall Withhold Information About The Child's Physical, Emotional Or Mental Health From The Parent; To Provide A Cause Of Action To Parents For Any Violation Of The Act; To Provide That A Parent May Raise The Provisions Of This Act As A Defense Against Certain Judicial Or Administrative Proceedings; To Provide Certain Limitations On The Provisions Of The Act; To Set Certain Transparency Measures For Public Schools And Charter Schools; To Establish Teachers' Expressive Rights Within A School; To Provide Rules Of Construction Related To The Act; And For Related Purposes.
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Mississippi 2025 Regular Session
Mississippi Senate Bill SB2871
Introduced
1/20/25
Refer
1/20/25
Failed
2/26/25
An Act To Authorize The Issuance Of State General Obligation Bonds To Provide Funds To Pay The Costs Associated With Repairs And Renovations For Ada Compliance For Buildings And Facilities At Alcorn State University; And For Related Purposes.
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Mississippi 2025 Regular Session
Mississippi Senate Bill SB2872
Introduced
1/20/25
Refer
1/20/25
Failed
2/26/25
An Act To Authorize The Issuance Of State General Obligation Bonds To Provide Funds To Assist The Board Of Supervisors Of Claiborne County, Mississippi, In Paying The Costs Associated With Various Capital Improvement Projects; And For Related Purposes.