l9n/ Mississippi

2012 Regular Session

House Bill 477

Health insurance plans; require to cover acupuncture treatments.

Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Insurance Committee on March 6, 2012. The 2012 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.

AN ACT TO REQUIRE THAT CERTAIN INSURANCE POLICIES AND CONTRACTS SHALL PROVIDE COVERAGE FOR ACUPUNCTURE TREATMENT FOR AN INDIVIDUAL WHEN A WRITTEN ORDER IS PROVIDED BY A PHYSICIAN THAT STATES THE TREATMENT IS MEDICALLY NECESSARY; 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

February 13 to March 6, 2012, 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 RepresentativesFeb 13 to Mar 6 · stopped22 days

InsuranceFeb 13 to Mar 6 · stopped22 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 Feb 13 – Mar 6

  1. Referred to the House committees on Insurance and on Public Health and Human Services
  2. Died in committee in the House
All 2 actions, as published