Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Insurance Committee on February 1, 2011. The 2011 session has ended.
2011 Regular Session
House Bill 145
Health insurance; prohibit issuance of policy restricting insurer from assigning benefits to provider.
What it does
The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 83-9-3, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROHIBIT THE ISSUANCE OF HEALTH INSURANCE POLICIES THAT RESTRICT AN INSURER FROM ASSIGNING BENEFITS TO A HEALTH CARE PROVIDER; TO AMEND SECTION 83-9-5, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROVIDE THAT IF AN INSURED PROVIDES AN INSURER WITH WRITTEN DIRECTIONS THAT THE BENEFITS PROVIDED BY A HEALTH INSURANCE POLICY BE PAID TO A HEALTH CARE PROVIDER RENDERING SERVICES, THEN THE INSURER SHALL PAY DIRECTLY THE HEALTH CARE PROVIDER; 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
Sponsor
Its course
January 4 to February 1, 2011, 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 4 to Feb 1 · stopped28 days
InsuranceJan 4 to Feb 1 · stopped28 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.