2022 Regular Session
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HB 4 Not Rated |
DPS; require to establish training component relating to autism spectrum disorder. | Dead | ||
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HB 6 Not Rated |
Mental Health Treatment Facility; revise hearing and commitment procedures. | Dead | ||
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HB 19 Not Rated |
Mississippi Code; modernize terminology by replacing 'mentally retarded' with 'intellectual disability'. | Dead | ||
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HB 20 Not Rated |
Anatomical gifts; prohibit discrimination against recipient based on disability. | Alive | ||
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HB 48 Not Rated |
Adult day care facilities; provide for licensure by State Department of Health. | Dead | ||
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HB 50 Not Rated |
Public and private schools; require all employees to be tested annually for tuberculosis. | Dead | ||
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HB 51 Not Rated |
Public and private schools; require all employees to annually receive flu vaccine. | Dead | ||
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HB 57 Not Rated |
State Workplace Safety and Health Office; establish under State Board of Health. | Dead | ||
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HB 74 Not Rated |
Disabilities, persons with; modernize terminology used to refer to. | Dead | ||
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HB 85 Not Rated |
Mississippi Special Needs Housing Steering Council; create. | Dead | ||
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HB 105 Not Rated |
Mississippi Tobacco Minimum Legal Sale Age of 21 Act; create. | Dead | ||
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HB 106 Not Rated |
Health insurance policies; require coverage for certain obesity treatments. | Dead | ||
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HB 107 Not Rated |
Mississippi Smoke-Free Air Act of 2022; create. | Dead | ||
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HB 110 Not Rated |
CON; remove end-stage renal disease facilities from application of law. | Dead | ||
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HB 124 Not Rated |
Health insurance policies; require coverage for gastric pacemakers. | Dead | ||
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HB 131 Not Rated |
State of emergency; provide a maximum time period for and authorize Department of Health to store dead bodies if necessary. | Dead | ||
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HB 134 Not Rated |
School districts; require all schools to have epinephrine auto-injectors in every building and cafeteria. | Dead | ||
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HB 137 Not Rated |
Appropriation; Health Department to provide epi-pens and AEDs in IHLs, community colleges and schools. | Dead | ||
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HB 151 Not Rated |
Public universities and colleges; require to have epinephrine auto-injectors and AEDs in every building on campus. | Dead | ||
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HB 153 Not Rated |
School districts; require each school to have epinephrine auto-injectors and AEDs in every building and cafeteria. | Dead | ||
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HB 193 Not Rated |
Fresh Start Act; revise certain provisions and authorize practice of medicine or dentistry after expungement of certain crimes. | Dead | ||
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HB 215 Not Rated |
Department of Health; limit any increase in fees by and revise who can be appointed to child care advisory council by State Health Officer. | Dead | ||
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HB 221 Not Rated |
Practice of medicine or dentistry; allow persons convicted of certain crimes to practice after license reinstatement. | Dead | ||
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HB 231 Not Rated |
COVID-19 vaccine mandates; authorize employee exemptions from. | Dead | ||
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HB 235 Not Rated |
Regional food banks; DHS establish grant program to provide annual grant funding to. | Dead | ||
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HB 263 Not Rated |
SNAP and TANF recipients; require those unemployed to take Test of Adult Basic Education. | Dead | ||
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HB 277 Not Rated |
TANF and Medicaid; require teenage recipients of to participate in programs about birth control, abstinence and parenting. | Dead | ||
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HB 278 Not Rated |
Mississippi Comprehensive Teen Pregnancy Prevention Act; create. | Dead | ||
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HB 280 Not Rated |
Comprehensive School Health Education Program; include additional components in and require school nurse to teach. | Dead | ||
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HB 282 Not Rated |
CON; authorize for nursing home in Jones County. | Dead | ||
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HB 284 Not Rated |
Nursing education; unspent TANF funds shall be spent to pay expenses of persons enrolled as part of workforce training. | Dead | ||
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HB 285 Not Rated |
Mental health; require DMH to convert unused IDD beds to be used for alcohol and drug use services. | Dead | ||
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HB 298 Not Rated |
DHS; develop process to ensure that subgrantees reflect the demographic makeup of the eligible population for the grants. | Dead | ||
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HB 315 Not Rated |
Mississippi Board of Human Services; create. | Dead | ||
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HB 319 Not Rated |
State agencies; prohibit disclosure of identifying information received from program applicants. | Dead | ||
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HB 320 Not Rated |
Child care facilities; require licensing agency to disclose names of persons filing complaints against. | Dead | ||
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HB 321 Not Rated |
Child Care Advisory Council; require child care providers to recommend names of persons to serve on. | Dead | ||
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HB 322 Not Rated |
Department of Human Services; require a board of directors to be created within. | Dead | ||
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HB 327 Not Rated |
Health care and education shortage assistance program; establish to help attract professionals to work in certain counties. | Dead | ||
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HB 328 Not Rated |
Licensed professional counselors; revise qualifications for licensure for applicants who meet certain requirements. | Dead | ||
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HB 329 Not Rated |
Child support enforcement and collection; terminate contract with private entity for and DHS shall perform. | Dead | ||
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HB 330 Not Rated |
CON; provide for exception to home health agency moratorium for certain hospice licensees. | Dead | ||
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HB 331 Not Rated |
Mississippi Department of Human Services employees; remove prohibition on participating in political campaigns for. | Dead | ||
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HB 336 Not Rated |
Universities and colleges; require to provide mental health assessments to members of school athletic teams. | Dead | ||
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HB 345 Not Rated |
Health; State Health Officer shall develop program to close the gap in health status of gender and racial groups. | Dead | ||
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HB 350 Not Rated |
Chronic Diseases; direct Health Department to establish WISEWOMAN and WISEMAN programs to reduce incidence of. | Dead | ||
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HB 355 Not Rated |
CON; remove services and equipment from requirement for. | Dead | ||
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HB 357 Not Rated |
'Mississippi Eyes on Smiling Students Health Act'; enact to require vision screening and oral health assessments for certain students. | Dead | ||
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HB 362 Not Rated |
Physical therapists; delete requirement for physician referral before performing services. | Dead | ||
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HB 363 Not Rated |
Home health services; authorize nurse practitioners and physician assistants to order and certify. | Dead | ||
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HB 364 Not Rated |
Physical therapy practice laws; revise various provisions of. | Dead | ||
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HB 365 Not Rated |
MS Rural Hospital Loan Program; establish in State Department of Health. | Alive | ||
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HB 395 Not Rated |
Speech-language pathologists and audiologists; create board to license and regulate. | Dead | ||
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HB 424 Good Policy |
Audiology and speech-language pathology interstate compact; create. | Alive | ||
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HB 435 Not Rated |
Anatomical gifts; prohibit discrimination against recipient based on disability. | Dead | ||
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HB 440 Not Rated |
Advanced practice registered nurses; revise certain provisions relating to, including collaboration requirement. | Dead | ||
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HB 450 Not Rated |
Autopsies; require to include inquiry about whether death was result of seizure or epilepsy. | Dead | ||
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HB 458 Not Rated |
Mississippi Rare Disease Advisory Council; create at UMMC. | Dead | ||
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HB 460 Not Rated |
Community mental health centers; provide that health insurers may not deny the right to participate as a contract provider. | Dead | ||
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HB 476 Not Rated |
Departments of Human Services and Child Protection Services; extend repealer on exemption from certain Procurement Review Board Requirements. | Dead | ||
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HB 477 Not Rated |
Mississippi Qualified Health Center Grant Program; extend expiration date for Department of Health to make physician grants. | Dead | ||
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HB 493 Not Rated |
Physical therapists; authorize to perform services without referral from another health care provider. | Dead | ||
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HB 507 Not Rated |
Dialysis facilities; nursing homes shall allow to provide mobile services on site to their patients. | Dead | ||
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HB 532 Not Rated |
Physical therapists; not required to have prior work experience to work at PPEC center. | Dead | ||
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HB 549 Not Rated |
Public health; repeal criminal penalty provisions for violations of certain statutes, regulations and orders relating to. | Dead | ||
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HB 558 Not Rated |
Drug and alcohol treatment; require 30-day minimum in-patient treatment. | Dead | ||
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HB 573 Not Rated |
Mental health screenings and assessments; require in all public schools. | Dead | ||
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HB 577 Not Rated |
Milk products; exempt owners of certain milk producing animals from regulation when used for personal milk consumption. | Dead | ||
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HB 580 Not Rated |
Abortion; provide that inducing or performing is unlawful. | Dead | ||
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HB 593 Not Rated |
Mississippi Access to Care Act; create. | Dead | ||
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HB 612 Not Rated |
State Health Officer; require certain orders issued by to be approved by the Governor. | Dead | ||
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HB 645 Not Rated |
Mattresses; require seller to give notice when previously owned. | Dead | ||
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HB 670 Not Rated |
Mental health support for educators; provide services and training for. | Dead | ||
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HB 678 Not Rated |
Mississippi Access to Care Act; create. | Dead | ||
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HB 682 Not Rated |
Pharmacists; authorize to test for and treat certain minor, nonchronic health conditions subject to certain requirements. | Dead | ||
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HB 703 Not Rated |
Rivers McGraw Mental Health Diversion Program; revise to create mental health treatment courts. | Dead | ||
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HB 732 Not Rated |
State Commission on the 9-8-8 Comprehensive Behavioral Health Crisis Response System; create. | Alive | ||
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HB 733 Not Rated |
Pharmacy Benefit Prompt Pay Act; revise various provisions of. | Dead | ||
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HB 734 Not Rated |
Project ADAM(Automated Defibrillators in Adam's Memory); establish pilot program to authorize AEDs in schools. | Dead | ||
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HB 738 Not Rated |
Mississippi Code; modernize terminology by replacing 'mentally retarded' with 'intellectual disability'. | Dead | ||
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HB 758 Not Rated |
No Patient Left Alone Act; create to provide certain visitation rights for hospital patients. | Dead | ||
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HB 759 Not Rated |
Mississippi Adult Health and Privacy Act; create. | Dead | ||
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HB 780 Not Rated |
Health insurers; authorize exemption from prior authorization requirements of for health care providers if certain criteria are met. | Dead | ||
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HB 798 Not Rated |
Reports of suspected abuse; require persons who make to give their name and contact information under certain circumstances. | Dead | ||
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HB 803 Not Rated |
Healthcare Contracting Simplification Act; create. | Dead | ||
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HB 816 Not Rated |
Cosmetology licensure laws; change name of manicurist to nail technician. | Dead | ||
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HB 817 Not Rated |
State Board of Barber Examiners; authorize county and municipal elected officials to serve as members of. | Dead | ||
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HB 837 Not Rated |
Hospitals and institutions for the aged or infirm; prohibit policies, subject to safety requirements, limiting visitation. | Dead | ||
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HB 838 Not Rated |
Mississippi Smoke-free Air Act; create. | Dead | ||
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HB 839 Not Rated |
Solemn Covenant of the States to Award Prizes for Curing Diseases Compact; enact. | Dead | ||
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HB 860 Not Rated |
Autopsies; create 'Jenna's Law' to require autopsies to include inquiring about whether death was result of seizure or epilepsy. | Dead | ||
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HB 861 Not Rated |
Health care practitioners; have right and freedom to publicly discuss treatment methods without repercussion from licensing agencies. | Dead | ||
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HB 862 Not Rated |
Medical records; set maximum amounts of fees that may be charged for providing in electronic format. | Dead | ||
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HB 866 Not Rated |
Mississippi Preauthorization Gold Card Act; enact. | Dead | ||
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HB 897 Not Rated |
Flu vaccines; reduce minimum age of hospital inpatients who must be offered them before their discharge. | Dead | ||
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HB 923 Not Rated |
Lead poisoning; require Department of Health to revise its prevention policies to align with CDC recommendation. | Dead | ||
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HB 927 Not Rated |
Newborn screening program; include those conditions listed on the Recommended Uniform Screening Panel within three years after listing. | Alive | ||
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HB 946 Not Rated |
Medical records; require health care provider to timely provide to patients after receiving request for. | Dead | ||
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HB 948 Not Rated |
Abortion-inducing pill; regulate with required consent. | Dead | ||
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HB 964 Not Rated |
Anatomical gifts; prohibit discrimination against recipient based on disability. | Dead | ||
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HB 986 Not Rated |
Disabled person's vehicle tag; remove requirement for physician's certification for annual renewal. | Dead | ||
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HB 991 Not Rated |
Foster care; require CPS to train children how to report human trafficking before being placed in. | Dead | ||
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HB 1005 Bad Policy |
Nursing and Respiratory Therapy Education Incentive Program; create. | Alive | ||
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HB 1011 Not Rated |
Department of Mental Health and community health centers; expand outpatient services for certain formerly incarcerated state inmates. | Dead | ||
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HB 1034 Not Rated |
Health Care Facility Right to Visit Act; create. | Dead | ||
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HB 1038 Not Rated |
Stillborn children; require death certificate for and require notice to parents that they may obtain birth certificate for. | Dead | ||
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HB 1042 Not Rated |
Mental health courts; clarify chancery court participation for certification of. | Dead | ||
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HB 1044 Not Rated |
Healthy and Safe Families and Workplaces Act; create. | Dead | ||
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HB 1045 Not Rated |
Funeral directing; issue license for to persons who meet certain criteria and apply within a certain 30 day period. | Dead | ||
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HB 1056 Not Rated |
Professional Counseling Compact; create. | Alive | ||
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HB 1100 Not Rated |
Nonemergency medical transportation providers; require to meet certain standards and have a permit from the Department of Health. | Dead | ||
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HB 1107 Not Rated |
Podiatrists; authorize certification for advanced practice for conservative or surgical treatment of the ankle. | Dead | ||
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HB 1110 Not Rated |
Freestanding emergency room; revise definition to include rural emergency hospital and specify other criteria. | Dead | ||
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HB 1137 Not Rated |
Regional mental health commissions; increase number of commissioners appointed by board of supervisors for certain counties. | Dead | ||
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HB 1145 Not Rated |
Long-term care facilities; require residents of certain to obtain a preneed contract within 6 months after admission. | Dead | ||
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HB 1146 Not Rated |
Rural Physician Scholarship Program; bring forward sections for purpose of amendment. | Dead | ||
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HB 1188 Not Rated |
Cosmetology Board; reconstitute membership of and require to appoint an executive director. | Dead | ||
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HB 1215 Not Rated |
Anesthesiologist Assistants; provide for licensure and regulations by Board of Medical Licensure. | Dead | ||
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HB 1216 Not Rated |
South Mississippi Regional Health Care Authority Act; create. | Dead | ||
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HB 1221 Not Rated |
State Board of Cosmetology and Barbering; create to license and regulate those two occupations. | Dead | ||
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HB 1231 Not Rated |
Funeral homes; revise various provisions relating to disposition of bodies, crematories and preneed contracts. | Dead | ||
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HB 1254 Not Rated |
Psychologists; exemption from Universal Recognition of Occupational Licenses Act. | Dead | ||
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HB 1261 Not Rated |
Hospitals; require to examine persons at ER with sickle cell disease symptoms within four hours after admission. | Dead | ||
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HB 1272 Not Rated |
Abortion; repeal statutes prohibiting after 15 weeks' gestation and after detection of fetal heartbeat. | Dead | ||
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HB 1294 Not Rated |
Funeral director assistants; authorize to perform all activities of funeral directors with certain exceptions. | Dead | ||
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HB 1298 Not Rated |
Hospice care; authorize to be provided to persons who are not terminally ill under certain circumstances. | Dead | ||
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HB 1304 Not Rated |
Breastfeeding; authorize distribution of statewide info to support breastfeeding in public places. | Dead | ||
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HB 1305 Not Rated |
Funeral services; require payment for before body may be transferred from one funeral home to another. | Dead | ||
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HB 1355 Not Rated |
Mobile barbershops; authorize licensed barbers to operate. | Dead | ||
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HB 1358 Not Rated |
DHS; direct to reinstate program of providing meals to older individuals in community setting. | Dead | ||
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HB 1368 Not Rated |
Abortion; prohibit except to save in a medical emergency. | Dead | ||
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HB 1379 Not Rated |
Abortion; revise physician requirement and prohibit facilities from selling stem cells. | Dead | ||
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HB 1390 Not Rated |
Window tint regulation; revise medical exemption. | Dead | ||
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HB 1405 Not Rated |
Face masks; prohibit public schools and universities and colleges from requiring students to wear. | Dead | ||
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HB 1450 Not Rated |
Vaccinations; require employers that mandate COVID-19 vaccinations for employees to provide exemption process. | Dead | ||
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HB 1451 Not Rated |
Vaccinations; prohibit state and local agencies and officials from mandating COVID-19 vaccinations. | Dead | ||
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HB 1452 Not Rated |
COVID-19 vaccine mandates; prohibit the State of Mississippi from imposing. | Dead | ||
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HB 1453 Not Rated |
Vaccine exemption; authorize for religious, philosophical or conscientious reasons. | Dead | ||
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HB 1454 Not Rated |
COVID-19 mandates; prohibit imposing upon businesses or individuals. | Dead | ||
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HB 1455 Not Rated |
Vaccine mandates; prohibit by employers and authorize damages if employer violates. | Dead | ||
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HB 1456 Not Rated |
Vaccine mandates; prohibit postsecondary educational institutions from requiring as a condition for attendance or enrollment. | Dead | ||
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HB 1457 Not Rated |
School Immunization; authorize exemption from requirements for religious beliefs. | Dead | ||
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HB 1458 Not Rated |
Vaccine mandates; prohibit schools from requiring as a condition for attendance or enrollment. | Dead | ||
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HB 1459 Not Rated |
Vaccine mandates; require employers to provide religious exemption for. | Dead | ||
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HB 1460 Not Rated |
Vaccination mandates; prohibit governmental entity from imposing. | Dead | ||
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HB 1461 Not Rated |
Vaccinations; prohibit employers and the State of Mississippi from requiring proof of. | Dead | ||
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HB 1462 Not Rated |
COVID-19; prohibit use of state funds for mandatory administration of vaccine against. | Dead | ||
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HB 1463 Not Rated |
COVID-19 vaccinations; prohibit governmental entities and public officials from requiring for any person. | Dead | ||
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HB 1470 Not Rated |
CON; remove chemical dependency services and facilities from requirements of the CON law. | Dead | ||
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HB 1471 Not Rated |
Health Care Certificate of Need Law; repeal. | Dead | ||
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HB 1509 Good Policy |
COVID-19 vaccine mandate; prohibit state and local government from imposing. | Alive | ||
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HB 1511 Not Rated |
The Abortion Complications Act of 2022; create. | Dead | ||
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SB 2350 Not Rated |
Certificate of Foreign Birth; allow issuance by Bureau of Vital Statistics. | Dead | ||
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SB 2419 Bad Policy |
Hospital Nurse and Allied Health Professional Retention Loan Program; create. | Dead | ||
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SB 2421 Bad Policy |
Physician grant funding from Qualified Health Center Grant Program; extend date of funding. | Alive | ||
| Analysis: This bill uses taxpayer dollars to pay the salaries of physicians. | ||||
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SB 2725 Good Policy |
Medical records; require health care providers to provide within 30 days of patient's or their representative's request. | Alive | ||
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SB 2735 Bad Policy |
Pilot freestanding emergency room; require the Department of Health to issue not more than five licenses. | Alive | ||
| Analysis: This bill allows for rural emergency hospitals to be considered as free standing emergency rooms, but puts restrictions and protectionists licensure requirements on them | ||||
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SB 2820 Bad Policy |
Covid-19 Hospital Expanded Capacity Program; require Department of Health to establish and administer. | Alive | ||
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SB 2899 Bad Policy |
Community mental health centers; provide that health insurers may not deny the right to participate as a contract provider. | Alive | ||
| Analysis: This bill requires insurers to provide coverage for mental health treatment at certain mental health centers. This is an overreach of government. | ||||
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SB 2900 Not Rated |
Newborn screening program; revise certain provisions of. | Dead | ||
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| KEY: | * = Amended | % = 3/5ths Vote Required | V = Vetoed |
| $ = Revenue | @ = Exempted From Deadline | P = Partially Vetoed |