l9n/ Mississippi

2010 Regular Session

House Bill 146

TANF and Medicaid; require teenage recipients of to participate in programs about birth control, abstinence and parenting.

Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Medicaid Committee on February 2, 2010. The 2010 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 43-17-5, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REQUIRE THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES TO PROVIDE TEENAGE TANF RECIPIENTS WITH INFORMATION AND REFERRAL TO PROGRAMS THAT PROVIDE INFORMATION ABOUT BIRTH CONTROL, PRENATAL HEALTH CARE, ABSTINENCE EDUCATION, MARRIAGE EDUCATION, PARENTING SKILLS, FAMILY PRESERVATION AND FATHERHOOD, AND REQUIRE THOSE TANF RECIPIENTS TO PARTICIPATE IN THOSE PROGRAMS; TO PROVIDE THAT AFTER THE IDENTITY OF THE FATHER OF A CHILD OF ANY OF THOSE TANF RECIPIENTS HAS BEEN LEGALLY DETERMINED, THE FATHER SHALL BE REQUIRED TO PARTICIPATE IN THOSE PROGRAMS; TO REQUIRE THE DIVISION OF MEDICAID TO PROVIDE TEENAGE MEDICAID RECIPIENTS WITH INFORMATION AND REFERRAL TO PROGRAMS THAT PROVIDE INFORMATION ABOUT BIRTH CONTROL, PRENATAL HEALTH CARE, ABSTINENCE EDUCATION, MARRIAGE EDUCATION, PARENTING SKILLS, FAMILY PRESERVATION AND FATHERHOOD, AND REQUIRE THOSE MEDICAID RECIPIENTS TO PARTICIPATE IN THOSE PROGRAMS; TO PROVIDE THAT AFTER THE IDENTITY OF THE FATHER OF A CHILD OF ANY OF THOSE MEDICAID RECIPIENTS HAS BEEN LEGALLY DETERMINED, THE FATHER SHALL BE REQUIRED TO PARTICIPATE IN THOSE PROGRAMS; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

Sponsors

Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.

In the House of Representatives

1 co-sponsor

Bryant W. Clark

Its course

January 5 to February 2, 2010, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.

Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.

Every action3 actions on 3 days

In the House of RepresentativesJan 5 to Feb 2 · stopped28 days

Public Health and Human ServicesJan 5 to Jan 2116 days

MedicaidJan 21 to Feb 2 · stopped12 days

Text

Each version as the Legislature printed it.

l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.

What happened

In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the Legislature published it is below.

In the House of Representatives Jan 5 – Feb 2

  1. Jan 5Referred to the House committees on Public Health and Human Services and on Medicaid
  2. Jan 21Reported as a committee substitute from PH to ME in the House: title sufficient, do pass
  3. Feb 2Died in committee in the House
All 3 actions, as published
  1. Jan 5Referred To Public Health and Human Services;MedicaidHouse of Representatives
  2. Jan 21DR - TSDPCS: PH To MEHouse of Representatives
  3. Feb 2Died In CommitteeHouse of Representatives