Bills in the 2025 Regular Session, House.
Sam Creekmore IV
Sponsored
Became law5
Pharmacy Practice Act; extend repealer on and make various changes to.
Department of Health; exempt certain contracts relating to the Public Health Lab from PPRB approval.
Community health workers; provide for certification of by Health Department and for Medicaid reimbursement for services of.
Mental health; provide exemption from pre-affidavit screening for persons being treated in an acute psych hospital who have already had evaluations.
Department of Health; authorize to increase fees for water quality analysis as required by the Safe Drinking Water Act.
Vetoed1
Mississippi Main Street; authorize counties to donate to and make MDAH administrator of Main Street Revitalization Grant.
Passed the House15
Mental Health First Aid training; require for full-time EMTs, paramedics, emergency medical responders and firefighters of governmental bodies.
"Medal of Honor Trail"; designate portion of Interstate 22 and U.S. Highway 78 within the State of Mississippi as.
Mental Health; revise appointment of Board of Mental Health and Executive Director.
MS Juvenile Tobacco Prevention; raise age restriction to 21.
Landscape architects; authorize to participate with multi-disciplinary engineer and architecture firms.
Social Work Licensure Compact; create.
Hospital Expanded Capacity Program; extend period during which expenses incurred by hospitals for ICU beds may be reimbursed under.
Genetic counselors; provide for licensure and regulation of by State Board of Health.
Opioid Settlement Fund Committee; create to disburse opioid litigation settlement monies.
CRNAs; exempt from collaborative agreement, and license anesthesiologist assistants.
Public purchasing laws; exempt the Department of Mental Health from certain.
Health insurance; require coverage for genetic testing for inherited mutation and evidence-based cancer imaging.
Vital records; fees for certain may be used by Board of Health for public health programs.
Union County; authorize assessments on justice court convictions and nonadjudications for capital improvements.
Union County; authorize certain assessments in justice court to fund maintenance of county law enforcement center.
Out of committee7
TANF; increase maximum amount of the monthly benefit for recipients of.
Mental Health Employee Retention Loan Repayment Program; create and provide funding for.
Mississippi Helping Ensure Alternative Law Enforcement Transportation for Healing (MissHEALTH) Pilot Program; establish for mental health crisis.
Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics; Dept. of Mental Health and Medicaid apply to join Demonstration Program for certification of CMHCs as.
Public Health Trust Fund; create in Treasury for State Department of Health.
Peer Helpers PLUS Act; create to provide counseling, education and mental health intervention in public schools.
Board of Medical Licensure; revise licensure status, definitions, procedure, fines and temporary practice authority.
In committee21
"Mental Awareness Program for School Act"; enact to require schools to provide mental health service providers and certain trauma-in-formal training.
School resource officers; require to undergo Mental Health First Aid training.
Child grooming; create crime of for sexual offense.
Bobbie Gentry Day; declare June 3 as.
In-state tuition; provide that 12 months of residency in MS shall constitute eligibility for.
School resource officers; require to follow student cohorts as they matriculate from grade to grade.
Union County Heritage Museum; designate as the official state barbeque museum.
Mental health facilities; provide for licensure of certain, and provide for Medicaid coverage for services provided by the facilities.
Mental Health First Aid Training; require for certain public school personnel and school resource officers.
No Patient Left Alone Act; create.
Rural Physicians Retention Loan Repayment Program; create.
Behavioral Threat Assessment Program; require State Department of Education and Department of Mental Health to establish.
Public Schools; require school boards to adopt policy on bell-to-bell cell phone prohibition.
Tobacco tax; tax vapor products and use revenue for certain mental health purposes.
Mental Health First Aid Training; require for instructional and administrative personnel employed by public school districts.
Mental health care personnel; clarify inclusion for enhanced penalties for violence against.
Increasing Reading Efficiency and Accountability Development (iREAD) Pilot Program; establish for "D" and "F" schools.
Community hospital boards of trustees; bring forward section with powers of.
Medicaid; delete prohibition on participation in for psychiatric residential treatment facility in Desoto County.
Appropriation; Department of Mental Health from Opioid Settlement Fund for Peer Helpers Plus Program and related PATH curriculum.
Appropriation; MS Symphony Orchestra for expanding its music education initiatives throughout the state.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 16
2025 First Extraordinary Session · Appropriation; Child Protection Services, Department of.
2025 First Extraordinary Session · Appropriation; Board of Cosmetology and Barbering.
2025 First Extraordinary Session · Appropriation; Human Services, Department of.
2025 First Extraordinary Session · Appropriation; Fire Academy.
2025 First Extraordinary Session · Appropriation; Insurance, Department of.
2025 First Extraordinary Session · Appropriation; Medicaid, Division of.
2025 First Extraordinary Session · Appropriation; Medical Licensure, Board of.
2025 First Extraordinary Session · Appropriation; Nursing, Board of.
2025 First Extraordinary Session · Appropriation; Optometry, Board of.
2025 First Extraordinary Session · Appropriation; Physical Therapy Board.
2025 First Extraordinary Session · Appropriation; Real Estate Commission.
2025 First Extraordinary Session · Appropriation; Rehabilitation Services, Department of.
2025 First Extraordinary Session · Appropriation; Social Workers and Marriage and Family Therapists, Board of Examiners for.
Appropriation; Nursing Home Administrators, Board of.
Appropriation; Psychology, Board of.
Appropriation; Real Estate Appraiser Licensing Certification Board.
Vetoed · 2
2025 First Extraordinary Session · Appropriation; Health, Department of.
CON; revise conditions for long-term care hospital in Harrison County to allow participation in Medicaid.
Passed the House · 16
Interstate Dental & Dental Hygiene Licensure Compact; create.
Certificate of need laws; revise various provisions of.
Appropriation; Child Protection Service, Department of.
Appropriation; Board of Cosmetology and Barbering.
Appropriation; Health, Department of.
Appropriation; Human Services, Department of.
Appropriation; Fire Academy.
Appropriation; Insurance, Department of.
Appropriation; Medicaid, Division of.
Appropriation; Medical Licensure, Board of.
Appropriation; Nursing, Board of.
Appropriation; Optometry, Board of.
Appropriation; Physical Therapy Board.
Appropriation: Real Estate Commission.
Appropriation; Rehabilitation Services, Department of.
Appropriation; Social Workers and Marriage and Family Therapists, Board of Examiners for.
Out of committee · 2
Professional music therapists; provide for licensure by State Department of Health.
Pharmacy benefit managers; revise provisions related to.
In committee · 3
Rural Fire Truck Acquisition Assistance Program; authorize an additional round for and remove certain limiting language.
Appropriation; MEMA to purchase equipment to pump or transfer potable water during natural disasters.
Bonds; authorize issuance to assit with establishment of Mississippi Organ Recovery Agency Infectious Disease Testing Lab.