Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Medicaid Committee on March 4, 2025. The 2025 session has ended.
2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 2393
Medicaid; exclude certain assets of disabled workers during eligibility determinations for long-term care services.
What it does
The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 43-13-116, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REQUIRE THE DIVISION OF MEDICAID, WHEN DETERMINING ELIGIBILITY FOR LONG-TERM CARE SERVICES, TO EXCLUDE ANY ASSETS ACCUMULATED IN A PERSON'S INDEPENDENCE ACCOUNT AND ANY INCOME OR ASSETS FROM RETIREMENT BENEFITS EARNED OR ACCUMULATED FROM EMPLOYMENT INCOME OR EMPLOYER CONTRIBUTIONS WHILE THE PERSON WAS EMPLOYED AND ELIGIBLE FOR AND RECEIVING BENEFITS UNDER THE DISABLED WORKERS CATEGORIES OF MEDICAID ELIGIBILITY; TO DEFINE THE TERM "INDEPENDENCE ACCOUNT"; 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
Sponsor
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.
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 13
- Jan 20Referred to the Senate committee on Medicaid
- Feb 4Reported from committee in the Senate: title sufficient, do pass
- Feb 13Passed the Senate
In the House of Representatives Feb 14 – Mar 4
- Feb 14Sent to the House
- Feb 17Referred to the House committee on Medicaid
- Mar 4Died in committee in the House