l9n/ Mississippi

2019 Regular Session

House Bill 1517

Medicaid; provide coverage for necessary services for ALS patients.

Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Medicaid Committee on February 5, 2019. The 2019 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 43-13-117, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROVIDE MEDICAID COVERAGE FOR SERVICES AS DETERMINED NECESSARY BY THE DIVISION OF MEDICAID FOR PERSONS WHO ARE DIAGNOSED WITH AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS (ALS); TO PROVIDE THAT ANY LIMITATION IMPOSED BY THE DIVISION ON THE FREQUENCY OF USE OF SERVICES SHALL NOT BE APPLICABLE TO PERSONS DIAGNOSED WITH ALS WHO ARE RECEIVING THOSE SERVICES; 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

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.

In the House of Representatives Jan 21 – Feb 5

  1. Referred to the House committees on Medicaid and on Appropriations
  2. Died in committee in the House
All 2 actions, as published