Committee
Mississippi Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee
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committee members
Juan Barnett (D)
Kevin Blackwell (R)
David Blount (D)
Chair
Hob Bryan (D)
Dennis DeBar (R)
Joey Fillingane (R)
Hillman Frazier (D)
Josh Harkins (R)
Rod Hickman (D)
Angela Hill (R)
Briggs Hopson (R)
Chris Johnson (R)
Chad McMahan (R)
Vice Chair
David Parker (R)
Rita Parks (R)
John Polk (R)
Jeff Tate (R)
Angela Turner-Ford (D)
Brice Wiggins (R)
| Bill | Bill Name | Progress | Referral Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| HB37 | Death certificate; APRNs and physician assistants may sign instead of physician in certain circumstances. | Dead | 02/17/2025 |
| HB116 | Alzheimer's disease and dementia; require State Department of Health to include education into existing public health programs. | Dead | 02/17/2025 |
| HB403 | No Patient Left Alone Act; create. | Dead | 02/17/2025 |
| HB531 | MS Rural Dentist Scholarship Program; increase number of students who may be admitted annually. | Dead | 02/17/2025 |
| HB569 | CON; revise conditions for long-term care hospital in Harrison County to allow participation in Medicaid. | Vetoed | 02/17/2025 |
| HB570 | Mental Health First Aid training; require for full-time EMTs, paramedics, emergency medical responders and firefighters of governmental bodies. | Dead | 02/14/2025 |
| HB668 | MS Juvenile Tobacco Prevention; raise age restriction to 21. | Dead | 02/14/2025 |
| HB670 | Social Work Licensure Compact; create. | Dead | 02/17/2025 |
| HB671 | Hospital Expanded Capacity Program; extend period during which expenses incurred by hospitals for ICU beds may be reimbursed under. | Dead | 02/17/2025 |
| HB674 | Interstate Dental & Dental Hygiene Licensure Compact; create. | Dead | 02/17/2025 |
| HB675 | Genetic counselors; provide for licensure and regulation of by State Board of Health. | Dead | 02/17/2025 |
| HB807 | Mental health; establish Division of Autism Services within Department of Mental Health. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/14/2025 |
| HB849 | CRNAs; exempt from collaborative agreement, and license anesthesiologist assistants. | Dead | 02/18/2025 |
| HB856 | Pharmacy Practice Act; extend repealer on and make various changes to. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/14/2025 |
| HB922 | Certificate of need laws; revise various provisions of. | Dead | 02/14/2025 |
| HB927 | Midwifery; provide for licensure and regulation of. | Dead | 02/18/2025 |
| HB928 | Hospitals; require those with ERs to have trained personnel on duty to conduct examinations of victims of sexual assault. | Dead | 02/18/2025 |
| HB1062 | Dental hygienists; authorize to provide services to patients under the general supervision of dentists under certain conditions. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/14/2025 |
| HB1064 | Public purchasing laws; exempt the Department of Mental Health from certain. | Dead | 02/17/2025 |
| HB1077 | Kratom products; prohibit sale to persons under 21. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/17/2025 |
| HB1083 | Health Care Expendable Fund; extend repealer on. | Dead | 02/17/2025 |
| HB1094 | Department of Health; exempt certain contracts relating to the Public Health Lab from PPRB approval. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/17/2025 |
| HB1123 | Pharmacy benefit managers and pharmacy services administrative organizations; provide certain regulations for. | Dead | 02/17/2025 |
| HB1190 | MS First Responder PTSD and Suicide Prevention Task Force; create. | Dead | 02/17/2025 |
| HB1262 | Nursing; authorize military medics to take exam to be licensed as an LPN. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/14/2025 |
| HB1392 | MS Triage, Treat and Transport to Alternative Destination Act; revise provisions related to. | Dead | 02/18/2025 |
| HB1401 | Community health workers; provide for certification of by Health Department and for Medicaid reimbursement for services of. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/14/2025 |
| HB1402 | Vital records; fees for certain may be used by Board of Health for public health programs. | Dead | 02/17/2025 |
| HB1404 | Mental health; provide exemption from pre-affidavit screening for persons being treated in an acute psych hospital who have already had evaluations. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/18/2025 |
| HB1447 | Department of Health; authorize to increase fees for water quality analysis as required by the Safe Drinking Water Act. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/18/2025 |
| HB1455 | Defending Affordable Prescription Drug Costs Act; delete certain prohibitions against distributors. | Dead | 02/17/2025 |
| HB1463 | Pseudoephedrine; require manufacturers to pay fees to National Association of Drug Diversion Investigators to support NPLE. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/17/2025 |
| HB1498 | MS Comprehensive Cancer Care Coalition Task force; create. | Dead | 02/17/2025 |
| HB1502 | MS Hemp Cultivation Act; revise provisions of and legalize manufacture and sale of hemp beverages. | Dead | 02/17/2025 |
| HB1530 | Mental Health Regional Commissions; authorize boards of supervisors to agree to board compositions. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/17/2025 |
| SB2033 | Midwifery; provide for licensure and regulation of. | Dead | 01/17/2025 |
| SB2036 | No Patient Left Alone Act; enact. | Dead | 01/17/2025 |
| SB2048 | Safeguarding Teens from Out-of-State Procedures Act; enact. | Dead | 01/17/2025 |
| SB2075 | Board of Medical Licensure; revise licensure status, definitions, procedure, fines and temporary practice authority. | Dead | 01/17/2025 |
| SB2436 | Social media; set certain requirements against content depicting tobacco or nicotine for minors. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2457 | Civil Commitment Reform Act; enact. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2662 | State Board of Health Professions; create and set out membership/board qualifications, powers and duties. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2663 | Alternative nicotine products; prohibit distribution or sale of certain products. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2664 | Dietitian Licensure Compact; ratify. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2665 | Dietitian Licensure Compact; enact. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2666 | Dietitian Licensure Compact; enact. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2667 | Nurse practitioners; authorize to dispense legend drugs to patients. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2668 | Dental hygienists; authorize to work under general supervision of dentists in nursing homes and correctional facilities. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2669 | Anesthesiologist assistants; provide for licensure and regulations by Board of Medical Licensure. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2670 | Practice of podiatric medicine; provide certain requirements to perform specific surgeries. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2671 | Podiatric medicine and podiatrists; revise definitions and provisions related thereto. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2672 | Advanced practice registered nurses; revise collaboration requirement. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2673 | Advanced practice registered nurses; to revise provisions related to APRNS / nurse anesthetists. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2674 | State Board of Dental Examiners; clarify powers and duties relating to practice of dentistry and dental hygiene. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2675 | Pharmacists; authorize to test for and administer treatment for minor, nonchronic health conditions. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2676 | Intimate medical examinations; establish requirements related to those of patients who are sedated, anesthetized or unconscious. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2677 | Pharmacy Benefit Prompt Pay Act; define requirements for pharmacy benefit managers and pharmacy services administrative organizations. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2678 | Pharmacy Benefit Prompt Pay Act; bring forward and prohibit spread pricing. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2679 | Department of Human Services; allow agency discretion for establishing or using certain federal reporting systems. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2680 | Rural emergency hospital; allow Department of Health to license psychiatric inpatient beds to separate associated entity. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2681 | Medicaid reimbursements and CON; revise provisions regarding facilities in DeSoto, Harrison and Madison Counties. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2682 | Health Care Certificate of Need Law; repeal. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2683 | CON; remove requirement for and delete moratorium on issuance for certain facilities, reform and organize. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2684 | Medicaid reimbursements; revise certain provisions relating to a psychiatric residential treatment facility in DeSoto County. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2685 | Certificate of need; delete requirement to obtain for psychiatric hospitals, renal disease facilities and additional facilities. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2686 | Certificate of need; authorize nursing facility in any underserved minority zip code area. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2687 | Certificate of Need; authorize additional beds in a community living program for disabled adults in Madison County. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2688 | TANF benefits; increase monthly amount of. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2689 | Applicants for TANF benefits; repeal section that requires drug testing as condition of eligibility. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2690 | Health Care Expendable Fund; delete repealer on. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2691 | MS Juvenile Tobacco Access Prevention Act; amend to prohibit the sale of tobacco or tobacco products to those under age 21. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2692 | Interstate Dental and Dental Hygiene Licensure Compact; enact. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2693 | Boards of Cosmetology and Barber Examiners; extend repealer on agency assistance in consolidation of. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2694 | MS Pharmacy Practice Act; extend repealer on. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2695 | Mississippi Professional Massage Therapy Act; extend repealer on. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2696 | Public Health Laboratory; exempt from Public Procurement Review Board approval requirement for certain contracts. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2697 | COVID-19 Hospital Expanded Capacity Program; extend expenditure period of. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2698 | MS Dementia Care Program; extend period of operation of. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2699 | Patient's Right to Informed Health Care Choices Act & prohibitions against deceptive advertising by providers; delete repealers on. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2700 | Birth certificate; require designation of sex and prohibit change unless mistake at the time the certificate was issued. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2701 | Department of Health; prohibit from requiring fluoridation in water system. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2702 | Hospitals; repeal requirement to offer influenza vaccines to certain individuals prior to discharge. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2703 | Mental Health Regional Commissions; authorize boards of supervisors to agree to board compositions. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2704 | Annual inspection of the infirmary at the State Penitentiary at Parchman; require State Department of Health to conduct. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2705 | Mississippi Genetic Counselor Practice Act; enact. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2706 | Mississippi Hemp Cultivation Act; rename, revise and create new provisions related to. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2707 | Registered providers of services for homeless persons; exempt from certain fees. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2708 | Personal care homes; require licensure and regulations of those providing living arrangements for one or more persons. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2709 | Nursing homes and assisted living facilities; require to have emergency power with fuel provisions for 5 days. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2710 | Nursing homes and assisted living facilities; require to have emergency power for patient medical devices. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2711 | Nursing homes and assisted living facilities; require to have emergency power sources. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2713 | Supplementary state food stamp program for elderly recipients; create and fund. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2714 | State Board of Funeral Service; require certain continuing education courses for licensees. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2715 | Pharmaceuticals; authorize the Division of Medicaid to establish a wholesale prescription drug importation program. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2716 | Board of Medical Licensure; revise licensure status and other provisions and create Board of Health Professions. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2717 | Child care; DHS shall transfer to CCDF the first $40 Million of unspent TANF funds from prior FY to be used for child care vouchers. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2718 | TANF block grant; DHS shall transfer 30% of each year to CCDF for child care vouchers. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2719 | Department of Human Services; require to transfer at least 30% of TANF block grant to Child Care and Development Fund. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2720 | TANF; require DHS to spend maximum allowable amount on child care vouchers. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2721 | Child care services; provide eligibility for certain persons under the Child Care Payment Program (CCPP). | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2722 | TANF; require set aside for nonprofits providing marriage counseling and support for military or first responder families. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2723 | TANF funds; prohibit use of for college scholarships for persons not receiving TANF benefits. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2724 | TANF benefits; provide child care and transportation for applicants during initial orientation meetings. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2725 | TANF funds; prohibit providing to any person whose income is more than 200% of poverty level. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2726 | Social Work Licensure Compact; enact. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2727 | Social Work Licensure Compact; enact. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2728 | Mental health facilities; provide for certain licensure and Medicaid coverage for services. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2729 | "Mississippi Public Health Trust Fund"; establish to support public health programs funded from medical cannabis taxes. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2731 | Psychologists; extend repealer on licensure law related to. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2732 | Mississippi Gestational Carrier, Surrogacy and In Vitro and Parent Act; enact. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2733 | NPLEx; require manufacturers of certain pseudoephedrine or ephedrine products to pay fees to support the administration of. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2734 | Kratom Control Act; enact. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2735 | Kratom Consumer Protection Act; enact. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2736 | Kratom; authorize regulation of and prohibit certain products. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2737 | Mississippi Kratom Consumer Protection Act; enact. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2738 | Mississippi Kratom Consumer Protection Act; enact. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2739 | Mental health; bring forward provisions related to commitment procedures for those with issues related to. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2740 | Drinking water quality analysis; increase MDOH fees for and allow fee adjustment in relation to the Producer Price Index. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2741 | Professional music therapists; provide for licensure by State Department of Health. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2742 | Birth certificate fees; allow to be spent on maternal, infant and children's healthcare programs. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2743 | Funds collected for certified copies; allow use for public health programs and completion of other recordkeeping and statistics. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2744 | Mississippi First Responder PTSD and Suicide Prevention Task Force; create. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2745 | Mississippi Medical Cannabis Act; amend to add anxiety and sleep disorders as debilitating medical conditions. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2746 | The Mississippi Comprehensive Cancer Care Coalition Task Force; create. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2749 | Community health workers; establish licensure program by Department of Health and certain provisions of law related to. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2751 | 340B drug discount program entities; remove distributor from prohibition of certain discriminating actions related to. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2752 | Revocation of physician's license by Board of Medical Licensure; provide certain grounds for reinstatement. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2753 | MDH; direct to incorporate brain health, Alzheimer's disease and dementia education into existing public health programs. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2754 | Pre-surgical Blood Alcohol Test (BAT); State Board of Health promulgate regulations requiring. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2755 | "Vaccine Discrimination and Transparency Act"; prohibit coercion related to vaccination. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2756 | Alternative Funding Task Force; create from members of the Mississippi Rare Disease Advisory Council. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2757 | Alternative Funding Task Force; create from members of the Mississippi Rare Disease Advisory Council. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2758 | Cultivated food products; criminalize the manufacture, sale or distribution of. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2759 | Dialysis facilities; nursing homes may allow to provide mobile services on site to their patients. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2762 | Podiatric medicine and podiatrists; revise certain definitions related thereto. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2795 | Pharmacy Practice Act; extend repealer on and make various changes in. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2818 | Mississippi Hospital Recovery Trust Program; create to provide grants to public hospitals at high financial risk. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2819 | Department of Human Services; require to transfer at least 30% of TANF block grant to Child Care and Development Fund. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2870 | Mississippi Families' Rights and Responsibilities Act; enact. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2873 | Nonemergency medical transportation services; define terms and revise certain provisions related to. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |
| SB2881 | Regional health authorities; create the Delta Regional Health Authority. | Dead | 01/20/2025 |