l9n/ Mississippi

2025 Regular Session

Senate Bill 2388

Medicaid; create provisions effecting parity in the prescription of pain medication.

Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Medicaid Committee on March 4, 2025. The 2025 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.

AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT THE DIVISION OF MEDICAID, IN ESTABLISHING AND MAINTAINING THE PREFERRED DRUG LIST, SHALL ENSURE THAT NO NONOPIOID DRUG APPROVED BY THE UNITED STATES FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION FOR THE TREATMENT OR MANAGEMENT OF PAIN SHALL BE DISADVANTAGED OR DISCOURAGED WITH RESPECT TO COVERAGE RELATIVE TO ANY OPIOID OR NARCOTIC DRUG FOR THE TREATMENT OR MANAGEMENT OF PAIN ON SUCH PREFERRED DRUG LIST; TO PROVIDE THAT THE DIVISION, IN ESTABLISHING AND MAINTAINING THE PREFERRED DRUG LIST, SHALL ENSURE THAT NO NONSTATIN MEDICATION THAT HAS A UNIQUE INDICATION TO REDUCE THE RISK OF A MAJOR CARDIOVASCULAR EVENT IN PRIMARY AND SECONDARY PREVENTION PATIENTS SHALL BE DISADVANTAGED OR DISCOURAGED WITH RESPECT TO COVERAGE RELATING TO ANY DRUG FOR THE TREATMENT OR MANAGEMENT OF CARDIOVASCULAR EVENTS ON SUCH PREFERRED DRUG LIST; 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 Senate

Its course

January 20 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 action9 actions on 7 days

In the SenateJan 20 to Feb 516 days

MedicaidJan 20 to Jan 299 days

InsuranceJan 29 to Jan 301 day

In the House of RepresentativesFeb 5 to Mar 4 · stopped27 days

MedicaidFeb 11 to Mar 4 · stopped21 days

Amendments

Each amendment offered, and what became of it.

  • Senate floor amendmentAdopted

    Adopted Feb 5

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 Senate Jan 20 – Feb 5

  1. Jan 20Referred to the Senate committees on Medicaid and on Insurance
  2. Jan 29Reported as a committee substitute from ME to IN in the Senate: title sufficient, do pass
  3. Jan 30Reported from committee in the Senate: title sufficient, do pass as a committee substitute
  4. Feb 5Committee substitute adopted in the Senate
  5. Amended in the Senate
  6. Passed the Senate as amended

In the House of Representatives Feb 7 – Mar 4

  1. Feb 7Sent to the House
  2. Feb 11Referred to the House committees on Medicaid and on Insurance
  3. Mar 4Died in committee in the House
All 9 actions, as published
  1. Jan 20Referred To Medicaid;InsuranceSenate
  2. Jan 29DR - TSDPCS: ME To INSenate
  3. Jan 30Title Suff Do Pass Comm SubSenate
  4. Feb 5Committee Substitute AdoptedSenate
  5. Feb 5AmendedSenate
  6. Feb 5Passed As AmendedSenate
  7. Feb 7Transmitted To HouseSenate
  8. Feb 11Referred To Medicaid;InsuranceHouse of Representatives
  9. Mar 4Died In CommitteeHouse of Representatives