Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Medicaid Committee on February 23, 2016. The 2016 session has ended.
2016 Regular Session
House Bill 893
Medicaid; suspend eligibility of incarcerated persons instead of terminating it.
What it does
The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 43-13-115, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROVIDE THAT PERSONS WHO WERE ELIGIBLE FOR MEDICAID IMMEDIATELY BEFORE BEING INCARCERATED SHALL HAVE THEIR MEDICAID ELIGIBILITY SUSPENDED AND NOT TERMINATED WHILE THEY ARE INCARCERATED; TO PROVIDE THAT UPON RELEASE FROM INCARCERATION, THOSE PERSONS SHALL CONTINUE TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR MEDICAID WITHOUT HAVING TO REAPPLY FOR A DETERMINATION OF ELIGIBILITY; 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
5 co-sponsors
John G. Faulkner, Karl Gibbs, Kabir Karriem, Carl Mickens, Orlando Paden
Its course
February 8 to February 23, 2016, 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 8 to Feb 23 · stopped15 days
MedicaidFeb 8 to Feb 23 · 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.