l9n/ Mississippi

2025 Regular Session

House Bill 570

Mental Health First Aid training; require for full-time EMTs, paramedics, emergency medical responders and firefighters of governmental bodies.

Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Public Health and Welfare Committee on March 4, 2025. The 2025 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.

AN ACT TO REQUIRE GOVERNMENTAL BODIES THAT EMPLOY OR CONTRACT FOR FULL-TIME CERTIFIED EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS (EMTS), PARAMEDICS, EMERGENCY MEDICAL RESPONDERS (EMRS), 911 DISPATCHERS OR FIREFIGHTERS TO PROVIDE MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID TRAINING THAT IS EVIDENCE-BASED AND APPROVED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH TO ALL OF THOSE PERSONNEL BY JULY 1, 2031; 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

2 co-sponsors

Kevin Felsher, Otis Anthony

Its course

January 15 to March 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 action7 actions on 6 days

In the House of RepresentativesJan 15 to Jan 2914 days

Public Health and Human ServicesJan 15 to Jan 216 days

In the SenateJan 29 to Mar 4 · stopped34 days

Public Health and WelfareFeb 14 to Mar 4 · stopped18 days

Amendments

Each amendment offered, and what became of it.

  • House of Representatives committee amendmentAdopted

    Adopted Jan 29

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 15 – Jan 29

  1. Jan 15Referred to the House committee on Public Health and Human Services
  2. Jan 21Reported from committee in the House: title sufficient, do pass as amended
  3. Jan 29Amended in the House
  4. Passed the House as amended

In the Senate Jan 31 – Mar 4

  1. Jan 31Sent to the Senate
  2. Feb 14Referred to the Senate committee on Public Health and Welfare
  3. Mar 4Died in committee in the Senate
All 7 actions, as published
  1. Jan 15Referred To Public Health and Human ServicesHouse of Representatives
  2. Jan 21Title Suff Do Pass As AmendedHouse of Representatives
  3. Jan 29AmendedHouse of Representatives
  4. Jan 29Passed As AmendedHouse of Representatives
  5. Jan 31Transmitted To SenateHouse of Representatives
  6. Feb 14Referred To Public Health and WelfareSenate
  7. Mar 4Died In CommitteeSenate