l9n/ Mississippi

2019 Regular Session

House Bill 1460

Hospice; allow medical directors to prescribe controlled substances for pain for terminally ill patients without in person visit.

Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Public Health and Welfare Committee on March 5, 2019. The 2019 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE MEDICAL DIRECTORS OF HOSPICES TO PRESCRIBE CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES FOR PATIENTS OF THE HOSPICE FOR TERMINAL DISEASE PAIN WITHOUT HAVING AN IN-PERSON FACE-TO-FACE VISIT WITH A PATIENT BEFORE ISSUING A PRESCRIPTION; TO AMEND SECTION 41-29-137, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO CONFORM TO THE PRECEDING PROVISION; 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

12 co-sponsors

Lester Carpenter, Kevin Ford, Steve Hopkins, Jay Hughes, Doug McLeod, Brent Powell, Fred Shanks, C. Scott Bounds, Shane Barnett, Deborah Butler Dixon, Kathy Sykes, Patricia H. Willis

Its course

January 21 to March 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 action6 actions on 6 days

In the House of RepresentativesJan 21 to Feb 717 days

Public Health and Human ServicesJan 21 to Jan 3110 days

In the SenateFeb 7 to Mar 5 · stopped26 days

Public Health and WelfareFeb 26 to Mar 5 · stopped7 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 Jan 21 – Feb 7

  1. Jan 21Referred to the House committee on Public Health and Human Services
  2. Jan 31Reported from committee in the House: title sufficient, do pass
  3. Feb 7Passed the House

In the Senate Feb 8 – Mar 5

  1. Feb 8Sent to the Senate
  2. Feb 26Referred to the Senate committee on Public Health and Welfare
  3. Mar 5Died in committee in the Senate
All 6 actions, as published
  1. Jan 21Referred To Public Health and Human ServicesHouse of Representatives
  2. Jan 31Title Suff Do PassHouse of Representatives
  3. Feb 7PassedHouse of Representatives
  4. Feb 8Transmitted To SenateHouse of Representatives
  5. Feb 26Referred To Public Health and WelfareSenate
  6. Mar 5Died In CommitteeSenate