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 659
Medicaid Access and Opportunity Act of 2022; create.
What it does
The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.
AN ACT TO BE KNOWN AS THE "MEDICAID ACCESS AND OPPORTUNITY ACT OF 2022"; TO REQUIRE THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE DIVISION OF MEDICAID TO PRESENT TO THE GOVERNOR, LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE AND CHAIRS OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE MEDICAID COMMITTEES A FEASIBILITY STUDY REGARDING THE APPLICATION FOR AND USE OF A BLOCK GRANT TO FINANCE THE STATE MEDICAID PROGRAM; TO AMEND SECTION 43-17-5, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REQUIRE THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES TO DENY TANF BENEFITS TO FAMILIES THAT INCLUDE AN ADULT WHO HAS RECEIVED TANF ASSISTANCE FOR TWENTY-FOUR MONTHS, DISREGARDING ANY MONTHS DURING WHICH ASSISTANCE IS RECEIVED BY AN ADULT RECIPIENT WHO AS A MINOR CHILD WAS NOT A HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD OR BY A FOSTER PARENT, AN UNRELATED ADULT, OR A NONPARENT RELATIVE IN A CHILD-ONLY CASE; TO CREATE NEW SECTION 43-12-73, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REQUIRE THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES TO ASSIGN CERTAIN RECIPIENTS OF SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (SNAP) BENEFITS TO AN EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING PROGRAM AS A CONDITION OF PARTICIPATION IN THE PROGRAM; TO CREATE NEW SECTION 43-33-801, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REQUIRE ALL PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITIES TO SEEK A FEDERAL WAIVER TO CONDUCT A SCREENING OF EACH APPLICANT FOR AND RECIPIENT OF HOUSING BENEFITS ADMINISTERED BY THE HOUSING AUTHORITY TO DETERMINE IF THE APPLICANT OR RECIPIENT IS UNEMPLOYED OR UNDEREMPLOYED AND ABLE-BODIED, AND TO CREATE AN EMPLOYABILITY PLAN FOR RECIPIENTS WHO ARE ABLE-BODIED AND EITHER UNEMPLOYED OR UNDEREMPLOYED AND REQUIRE PARTICIPATION IN THE PLAN AS A TERM OF THEIR HOUSING BENEFITS; TO CREATE NEW SECTION 43-33-803, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REQUIRE ALL PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITIES IN THE STATE TO DISTRIBUTE HOUSING BENEFITS AND SELECT APPLICANTS FROM BENEFIT WAITING LISTS GIVING THE HIGHEST PREFERENCE TO FAMILIES WHERE ALL ABLE-BODIED ADULTS IN THE HOUSEHOLD ARE EMPLOYED; 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 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
MedicaidJan 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.