Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Medicaid Committee on February 1, 2022. The 2022 session has ended.
2022 Regular Session
House Bill 40
Medicaid; require division to promptly sell or lease residence of deceased recipient obtained through estate recovery.
What it does
The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 43-13-317, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROVIDE THAT IF THE DIVISION OF MEDICAID ASSUMES OWNERSHIP OF THE RESIDENCE OF A DECEASED MEDICAID RECIPIENT AS A CONSEQUENCE OF SEEKING RECOVERY OF MEDICAID PAYMENTS FROM THE RECIPIENT'S ESTATE, THE DIVISION SHALL TAKE THE NECESSARY ACTIONS TO ENSURE THAT THE RESIDENCE IS SOLD OR LEASED PROMPTLY TO AN INDIVIDUAL WHO WILL OCCUPY THE RESIDENCE SO THAT THE PROPERTY WILL NOT BE LEFT UNOCCUPIED WHILE IT IS OWNED BY THE DIVISION; 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 4 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 4 to Feb 1 · stopped28 days
MedicaidJan 4 to Feb 1 · stopped28 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.