Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Medicaid Committee on February 4, 2025. The 2025 session has ended.
2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 2868
Postpartum depression; create new laws and revise existing provisions related to.
What it does
The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.
AN ACT TO CREATE NEW SECTION 83-9-47, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROHIBIT INSURERS PROVIDING PRESCRIPTION DRUG COVERAGE FROM REQUIRING OR IMPOSING ANY STEP THERAPY PROTOCOL WITH RESPECT TO DRUGS APPROVED BY THE UNITED STATES FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION (FDA) FOR THE TREATMENT OF POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION; TO DEFINE "INSURER"; TO AMEND SECTION 43-13-117, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROHIBIT THE DIVISION OF MEDICAID AND CERTAIN MANAGED CARE ENTITIES FROM REQUIRING OR IMPOSING ANY STEP THERAPY PROTOCOL WITH RESPECT TO A DRUG THAT IS APPROVED BY THE UNITED STATES FDA FOR THE TREATMENT OF POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION; TO CREATE NEW SECTION 41-140-1, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO DEFINE TERMS; TO CREATE NEW SECTION 41-140-3, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REQUIRE THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH TO DEVELOP AND PROMULGATE WRITTEN EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS AND INFORMATION FOR HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS AND PATIENTS ABOUT MATERNAL MENTAL HEALTH CONDITIONS; TO REQUIRE HOSPITALS PROVIDING BIRTH SERVICES TO PROVIDE SUCH EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS TO NEW PARENTS AND, AS APPROPRIATE, OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS; TO REQUIRE SUCH MATERIALS BE PROVIDED TO ANY WOMAN WHO PRESENTS WITH SIGNS OF A MATERNAL MENTAL HEALTH DISORDER; TO CREATE NEW SECTION 41-140-5, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REQUIRE ANY HEALTH CARE PROVIDER OR NURSE MIDWIFE WHO RENDERS POSTNATAL CARE OR PEDIATRIC INFANT CARE TO ENSURE THAT THE POSTNATAL CARE PATIENT OR BIRTHING MOTHER OF THE PEDIATRIC INFANT CARE PATIENT, AS APPLICABLE, IS OFFERED SCREENING FOR POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION AND TO PROVIDE APPROPRIATE REFERRALS IF SUCH PATIENT OR MOTHER IS DEEMED LIKELY TO BE SUFFERING FROM POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION; TO CREATE NEW SECTION 83-9-48, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO DEFINE "INSURER" AND REQUIRE INSURERS TO PROVIDE COVERAGE FOR POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION SCREENING; 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 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
MedicaidJan 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.