Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Medicaid Committee on February 4, 2025. The 2025 session has ended.
2025 Regular Session
House Bill 1292
Medicaid; division shall seek waiver to allow coverage for additional eyeglasses within 5-year period for adults whose refraction has changed.
What it does
The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 43-13-117, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO DIRECT THE DIVISION OF MEDICAID TO APPLY FOR A FEDERAL WAIVER TO ALLOW COVERAGE FOR AN ADDITIONAL PAIR OF EYEGLASSES WITHIN A FIVE-YEAR PERIOD FOR BENEFICIARIES WHO ARE TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER WHOSE REFRACTION HAS CHANGED WITHIN THE FIVE-YEAR PERIOD AND A PHYSICIAN SKILLED IN DISEASES OF THE EYE OR AN OPTOMETRIST HAS DETERMINED THAT A NEW PAIR OF EYEGLASSES IS NEEDED TO CORRECT THE CHANGE IN REFRACTION; 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 20 to February 4, 2025, 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 20 to Feb 4 · stopped15 days
MedicaidJan 20 to Feb 4 · 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 20 – Feb 4
- Jan 20Referred to the House committees on Medicaid and on Appropriations A
- Feb 4Died in committee in the House
All 2 actions, as published
- Jan 20Referred To Medicaid;Appropriations AHouse of Representatives
- Feb 4Died In CommitteeHouse of Representatives