Bills in the 2025 Regular Session, Senate.
Kevin Blackwell
Sponsored
Became law4
Medicaid estate recovery; prohibit application to obtain funds from ABLE accounts.
Dietitian Licensure Compact; ratify.
Mississippi Medical Cannabis Act; revise provisions related to.
City of Olive Branch; extend repealer on 1% hotel/motel tax and issuance of bonds for tourism and parks and recreation.
Vetoed2
Medicaid; make various amendments to the provisions of the program.
Medicaid; make various amendments to the provisions of the program.
Passed the Senate3
Health insurance; prohibit insurers from discriminating against durable medical equipment and set reimbursement rate.
Medicaid; create provisions effecting parity in the prescription of pain medication.
Motor Vehicle Liability Insurance Enforcement Study Committee; create.
Out of committee2
Mental health facilities; provide for licensure of certain, and provide for Medicaid coverage for services provided.
Mississippi Hemp Cultivation Act; rename, revise and create new provisions related to.
In committee37
Tax sale; county to retain any overbid amount and landowner prohibited from requesting recovery of.
Midwifery; provide for licensure and regulation of.
Statute of limitations; except sexual battery from.
Reckless endangerment; create crime of.
Primary elections; change date to June.
Election code; establish provisions for electronic voter registration application and secure website.
Legislative offices; define vacancy.
Affidavit ballots; reduce length of time within which certain persons must present proper voter ID or execute religious exemption.
Health insurance; require health benefit plans to follow new procedure related to step therapy protocol for CRF-COPD treatment.
General Fund; FY2026 appropriation to Medical Cannabis Advisory Committee.
General Fund; FY2026 appropriation to University of Mississippi for the Center for Mississippi Medical Cannabis Research.
Appointed state officers; provide for the removal of for certain forms of willful neglect.
Civics Test; require passing score for high school graduates and high school equivalency diploma applicants.
Cell location information; require providers to disclose to law enforcement under certain circumstances.
Elections; public official's qualification as candidate deemed resignation of current office.
Performance and payment bonds; increase the lump-sum threshold to $75,000.00 for.
Real Estate Commission; grant discretion to issue license after felony conviction of crimes of moral turpitude.
Annual tax assessment; revise deadline to file protest of.
State Board of Health Professions; create and set out membership/board qualifications, powers and duties.
Nurse practitioners; authorize to dispense legend drugs to patients.
Advanced practice registered nurses; revise collaboration requirement.
Advanced practice registered nurses; to revise provisions related to APRNS / nurse anesthetists.
State Board of Dental Examiners; clarify powers and duties relating to practice of dentistry and dental hygiene.
CON; remove requirement for and delete moratorium on issuance for certain facilities, reform and organize.
Medicaid reimbursements; revise certain provisions relating to a psychiatric residential treatment facility in DeSoto County.
Board of Medical Licensure; revise licensure status and other provisions and create Board of Health Professions.
Mental health facilities; provide for certain licensure and Medicaid coverage for services.
Podiatric medicine and podiatrists; revise certain definitions related thereto.
Real Estate Commission; allow to issue voluntary use of real estate licensees in residential transactions.
Capital Expense Fund; FY2026 appropriation to DOH for MS Baptist Medical Center to establish a burn center or unit.
Public procurement; import federal exceptions to the requirement of following certain federal standards.
Public notice; provide counties and municipalities with alternatives to newspapers.
Postpartum depression; create new laws and revise existing provisions related to.
Nonemergency medical transportation services; define terms and revise certain provisions related to.
General Fund; FY2026 appropriation to University of Mississippi for the Center for Mississippi Medical Cannabis Research.
General Fund; FY2026 appropriation to the City of Olive Branch for a feasibility study of the HWY 305 corridor.
General Fund; FY2026 appropriation to Medical Cannabis Advisory Committee.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 18
2025 First Extraordinary Session · Appropriation; Emergency Management Agency.
2025 First Extraordinary Session · Appropriation; Agriculture and Commerce, Department of.
2025 First Extraordinary Session · Appropriation; Fair and Coliseum Commission - Livestock shows.
2025 First Extraordinary Session · Appropriation; Animal Health, Board of.
2025 First Extraordinary Session · Appropriation; Information Technology Services, Department of.
2025 First Extraordinary Session · Appropriation; Personnel Board.
2025 First Extraordinary Session · Appropriation; Military Department.
2025 First Extraordinary Session · Appropriation; Veterans Affairs Board.
2025 First Extraordinary Session · Appropriation; Secretary of State.
2025 First Extraordinary Session · Appropriation; Treasurer's Office.
2025 First Extraordinary Session · Appropriation; Debt Service-Gen. Obli.
2025 First Extraordinary Session · Appropriation; Audit, Department of.
2025 First Extraordinary Session · Appropriation; Banking and Consumer Finance, Department of.
2025 First Extraordinary Session · Appropriation; Governor's Office and Mansion.
2025 First Extraordinary Session · Appropriation; Gulf Coast Restoration Funds to the Mississippi Development Authority.
Real property; clarify eviction procedures, provide procedure for removal from RV parks.
State vegetable; designate the sweet potato as.
Professional music therapists; provide for licensure by State Department of Health.
Vetoed · 2
2025 First Extraordinary Session · Appropriation; Finance and Administration, Department of.
2025 First Extraordinary Session · Appropriation; Development Authority, Mississippi.
Passed the Senate · 18
State Task Force for Agency Reorganization; establish.
State agency property; authorize DFA as central leasing agent for all state agencies.
Kratom; add to Schedule III of the Uniform Controlled Substances Act.
REFOCUS Act; enact.
Sales Tax Diversion Study Committee; establish.
Public schools; allow retired administrators to return to work as teachers.
Pharmacy Benefit Prompt Pay Act; define requirements for pharmacy benefit managers and pharmacy services administrative organizations.
Welcome centers; authorize MDA to contract with and award grants to counties for staffing.
Mississippi Ireland Trade Commission; establish.
Nonemergency transportation program; require PEER Committee to evaluate performance of two years after each new contract implementation.
Ad valorem tax; specify provisions for determining the true value of rural structures.
Appropriation; Audit, Department of.
Appropriation; Banking and Consumer Finance, Department of.
Appropriation; Finance and Administration, Department of.
Appropriation; Governor's Office and Mansion.
Appropriation; Development Authority, Mississippi.
Appropriation; Gulf Coast Restoration Funds to the Mississippi Development Authority.
Tax; cut income and grocery taxes, increase fuel excise tax, and adjust distribution of certain fuel and sales taxes.
In committee · 2
Public purchasing; exempt DFA from requirements for United States Semiquincentennial Commission expenses.
Cultivated food products; criminalize the manufacture, sale or distribution of.