Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Medicaid Committee on February 5, 2019. The 2019 session has ended.
2019 Regular Session
House Bill 1123
Medicaid; provide for reduction of funds for hospitals that advertise emergency room wait times.
What it does
The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 43-13-131, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROVIDE THAT ANY HOSPITAL THAT ADVERTISES EMERGENCY ROOM WAIT TIMES SHALL BE SUBJECT TO A REDUCTION OF TWENTY PERCENT OF MISSISSIPPI HOSPITAL ACCESS PROGRAM PAYMENTS UNDER THE MEDICAID PROGRAM, AND ANY REDUCTION IN PAYMENTS SHALL BE DISTRIBUTED TO OTHER HOSPITALS IN A MANNER TO BE DETERMINED BY THE DIVISION OF MEDICAID; 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 21 to February 5, 2019, 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 21 to Feb 5 · stopped15 days
MedicaidJan 21 to Feb 5 · 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.