Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Public Health and Human Services Committee on February 4, 2025. The 2025 session has ended.
2025 Regular Session
House Bill 681
Dental and medical records; require practices to offer to patients upon expiration of prescribed retention period.
What it does
The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTIONS 73-9-13 AND 73-43-11, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REQUIRE DENTIST AND PHYSICIAN PRACTICES TO OFFER TO A PATIENT THE PATIENT'S RECORDS UPON THE EXPIRATION OF THE PRESCRIBED PERIOD OF RETENTION; TO REQUIRE PRACTICES TO SEEK TO PROCURE A PATIENT'S SIGNATURE WHENEVER THE PATIENT ELECTS NOT TO TAKE POSSESSION OF THE RECORDS; 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 15 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 15 to Feb 4 · stopped20 days
Public Health and Human ServicesJan 15 to Feb 4 · stopped20 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 15 – Feb 4
- Jan 15Referred to the House committee on Public Health and Human Services
- Feb 4Died in committee in the House
All 2 actions, as published
- Jan 15Referred To Public Health and Human ServicesHouse of Representatives
- Feb 4Died In CommitteeHouse of Representatives