Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Public Health and Welfare Committee on February 4, 2025. The 2025 session has ended.
2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 2680
Rural emergency hospital; allow Department of Health to license psychiatric inpatient beds to separate associated entity.
What it does
The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.
AN ACT TO CREATE NEW SECTION 41-20-12, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROVIDE THAT IF A HEALTH CARE FACILITY RELINQUISHED ITS CERTIFICATE OF NEED OR LICENSE FOR INPATIENT PSYCHIATRIC SERVICES DUE TO CONVERSION FROM AN ACUTE CARE HOSPITAL OR CRITICAL ACCESS HOSPITAL TO A RURAL EMERGENCY HOSPITAL IN ACCORDANCE WITH 42 CFR § 485.502, THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH MAY LICENSE THE PSYCHIATRIC INPATIENT BEDS TO A SEPARATE ENTITY IF THE NEW APPLICANT IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE RURAL EMERGENCY HOSPITAL; TO REQUIRE THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH TO ISSUE A SEPARATE CERTIFICATE OF NEED TO THE NEW ENTITY; TO REQUIRE THE RURAL EMERGENCY HOSPITAL AND THE PSYCHIATRIC FACILITY TO MAINTAIN SEPARATION OF FACILITIES, LICENSURE, OPERATIONS, FINANCES AND GOVERNANCE; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
Sponsors
Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.
Its course
January 20 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 SenateJan 20 to Feb 4 · stopped15 days
Public Health and WelfareJan 20 to Feb 4 · stopped15 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 Senate Jan 20 – Feb 4
- Jan 20Referred to the Senate committee on Public Health and Welfare
- Feb 4Died in committee in the Senate
All 2 actions, as published
- Jan 20Referred To Public Health and WelfareSenate
- Feb 4Died In CommitteeSenate