l9n/ Mississippi

2022 Regular Session

House Bill 1033

First Responders Health and Safety Act; revise to provide that the cancer benefits will be paid by the state and not insurance policies.

Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Insurance Committee on February 1, 2022. The 2022 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTIONS 25-15-405 AND 25-25-409, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REVISE THE MISSISSIPPI FIRST RESPONDERS HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT TO PROVIDE THAT THE CANCER BENEFITS UNDER THE ACT WILL NOT BE PAID FROM INSURANCE POLICIES BUT SHALL BE PAID BY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE FROM FUNDS APPROPRIATED BY THE LEGISLATURE; TO REPEAL SECTION 25-15-407, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, WHICH PROVIDES THAT THE COST OF PURCHASING INSURANCE POLICIES THAT PROVIDE FOR CANCER COVERAGE MUST BE BORNE BY THE FIRST RESPONDERS' EMPLOYERS; TO AMEND SECTION 7, CHAPTER 467, LAWS OF 2019, AS LAST AMENDED BY SECTION 2, CHAPTER 364, LAWS OF 2021, TO REVISE THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE MISSISSIPPI FIRST RESPONDERS HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT TO CONFORM WITH THIS ACT; 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

11 co-sponsors

Lester Carpenter, Sam Creekmore IV, Casey Eure, Bob Evans, Jill Ford, Dale Goodin, Kevin Horan, Bill Pigott, Randy Rushing, Donnie Scoggin, Joseph Tubb

Its course

January 17 to February 1, 2022, 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 17 to Feb 1 · stopped15 days

InsuranceJan 17 to Feb 1 · 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 17 – Feb 1

  1. Jan 17Referred to the House committees on Insurance and on Appropriations
  2. Feb 1Died in committee in the House
All 2 actions, as published
  1. Jan 17Referred To Insurance;AppropriationsHouse of Representatives
  2. Feb 1Died In CommitteeHouse of Representatives