Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Medicaid Committee on February 1, 2011. The 2011 session has ended.
2011 Regular Session
House Bill 774
Medicaid; require division to cooperate with Health Benefit Exchange and create Health Benefit Exchange Act.
What it does
The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTIONS 43-13-115, 43-13-121 AND 41-86-15, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO DIRECT THE DIVISION OF MEDICAID TO COOPERATE WITH THE MISSISSIPPI HEALTH BENEFIT EXCHANGE CREATED BY THIS ACT IN THE PERFORMANCE OF ITS DUTIES, AND TO ACCEPT THE ENROLLMENT OF PERSONS WHO ARE DETERMINED TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR MEDICAID OR THE CHILDREN'S HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM BY THE EXCHANGE; TO CREATE THE MISSISSIPPI HEALTH BENEFIT EXCHANGE ACT; TO STATE THE PURPOSE AND INTENT OF THE ACT; TO PROVIDE DEFINITIONS FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE ACT; TO ESTABLISH THE MISSISSIPPI HEALTH BENEFIT EXCHANGE AS AN OFFICE WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE; TO PROVIDE THE GENERAL REQUIREMENTS FOR AND SPECIFIC DUTIES OF THE EXCHANGE; TO AUTHORIZE THE EXCHANGE TO CERTIFY HEALTH BENEFIT PLANS AS QUALIFIED HEALTH PLANS; TO AUTHORIZE THE EXCHANGE TO CHARGE ASSESSMENTS OR USER FEES TO HEALTH CARRIERS TO PROVIDE FUNDING NECESSARY TO SUPPORT ITS OPERATIONS; TO AUTHORIZE THE EXCHANGE TO PROMULGATE REGULATIONS TO IMPLEMENT THE PROVISIONS OF THIS ACT; 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
3 co-sponsors
Walter L. Robinson, Jr., Robert L. Johnson III, D. Stephen Holland
Its course
January 14 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 14 to Feb 1 · stopped18 days
MedicaidJan 14 to Feb 1 · stopped18 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.