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2010 Regular Session

House Bill 933

Mental health; prohibit expenditure of state funds for adult services except for those adults with certain diagnoses.

Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Public Health and Human Services 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 SECTIONS 41-4-7 AND 41-19-33, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROVIDE THAT, FROM AND AFTER JANUARY 1, 2011, THE STATE BOARD OF MENTAL HEALTH AND THE REGIONAL MENTAL HEALTH COMMISSIONS SHALL NOT SPEND ANY STATE FUNDS FOR MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR ADULTS EXCEPT FOR THOSE ADULTS WHO HAVE A DIAGNOSIS OF A SEVERE AND PERSISTENT MENTAL ILLNESS SUCH AS SCHIZOPHRENIA, SEVERE MAJOR DEPRESSION, BIPOLAR DISORDER, OR OTHER SEVERELY DISABLING MENTAL DISORDER THAT REQUIRES CRISIS RESOLUTION OR ONGOING AND LONG-TERM SUPPORT AND TREATMENT; TO DELETE THE AUTHORITY FOR REGIONAL MENTAL HEALTH/MENTAL RETARDATION COMMISSIONS TO PROVIDE SERVICES FOR THE PROBLEMS OF AGING; TO PROVIDE THAT THE STATE BOARD OF MENTAL HEALTH, RATHER THAN THE DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH, SHALL DESIGNATE AND CERTIFY CERTAIN SERVICES THAT ARE PROVIDED BY THE REGIONAL COMMISSIONS; 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

Its course

January 18 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 action2 actions on 2 days

In the House of RepresentativesJan 18 to Feb 2 · stopped15 days

Public Health and Human ServicesJan 18 to Feb 2 · stopped15 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 18 – Feb 2

  1. Jan 18Referred to the House committees on Public Health and Human Services and on Appropriations
  2. Feb 2Died in committee in the House
All 2 actions, as published
  1. Jan 18Referred To Public Health and Human Services;AppropriationsHouse of Representatives
  2. Feb 2Died In CommitteeHouse of Representatives