l9n/ Mississippi

2025 Regular Session

House Bill 718

Opioid use disorder; require substance use disorder facilities to provide pregnant women with onsite access to certain treatments.

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.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.

AN ACT TO REQUIRE EACH SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER FACILITY THAT PROVIDES TREATMENT FOR OPIOID USE DISORDER TO PREGNANT WOMEN TO PROVIDE ONSITE ACCESS TO AT LEAST ONE FORM OF FDA-APPROVED OPIOID AGONIST TREATMENT; TO DEFINE THE TERM "SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER FACILITY" AS A FACILITY OR PROGRAM OPERATED OR CERTIFIED BY THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH THAT PROVIDES TREATMENT TO PERSONS WITH SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS; TO DEFINE THE TERM "ONSITE ACCESS" AS DELIVERY OF THE TREATMENT TO THE PATIENT AT THE LOCATION OF THE SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER FACILITY; TO REQUIRE, FROM AND AFTER JULY 1, 2026, EACH SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER FACILITY SUBJECT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF THIS ACT THAT IS CERTIFIED BY THE DEPARTMENT TO SUBMIT TO THE DEPARTMENT ON ITS INITIAL CERTIFICATION APPLICATION OR ITS CERTIFICATION RENEWAL APPLICATION AN ATTESTATION AS TO WHETHER IT IS COMPLYING WITH THE REQUIREMENTS OF THIS ACT; TO DIRECT THE DEPARTMENT TO MONITOR COMPLIANCE BY SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER FACILITIES WITH THE REQUIREMENTS OF THIS ACT TO ENSURE CONTINUED ACCESS TO OPIOID USE DISORDER TREATMENT FOR PREGNANT WOMEN, AND TO MAKE CERTAIN REPORTS ANNUALLY TO THE PUBLIC HEALTH COMMITTEES OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE; 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

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

  1. Referred to the House committee on Public Health and Human Services
  2. Died in committee in the House
All 2 actions, as published