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SC509 - Extend recognition to United States Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith as first woman elected to represent Mississippi in Washington, D.C.
Dean Kirby, Jason Barrett, Scott DeLano
Last updated 6 months ago
29 Co-Sponsors
A Concurrent Resolution Extending The Recognition Of The Mississippi Legislature To United States Senator Cindy Hyde-smith As The First Woman Elected To Represent The State Of Mississippi In Washington, D.c.
STATUS
Passed
SB2140 - Mississippi Prior Authorization Reform Act; enact.
Walter Michel, Charles A. Younger, Brice Wiggins
Last updated 7 months ago
19 Co-Sponsors
An Act To Enact The Mississippi Prior Authorization Reform Act; To Establish The Legislative Findings Of The Act; To Provide The Applicability And Scope Of The Act; To Require Health Insurance Issuers To Maintain A Complete List Of Services For Which Prior Authorizations Are Required; To Require Health Insurance Issuers To Make Any Current Prior Authorization Requirements And Restrictions Readily Accessible And Posted On Its Website; To Set Requirements For The Clinical Review Criteria Of Health Insurance Issuers; To Prohibit Health Insurance Issuers From Denying A Claim For Failure To Obtain Prior Authorization If The Prior Authorization Requirement Was Not In Effect On The Date Of Service On The Claim; To Require Health Insurers To Make Certain Prior Authorization Statistics Available On Their Website; To Require Health Insurance Issuers To Make Available A Standardized Electronic Prior Authorization Request Transaction Process By January 1, 2025; To Require All Health Care Professionals And Health Care Providers To Use That Process Not Later Than January 1, 2027; To Establish Certain Requirements On Health Insurance Issuers For Prior Authorizations In Nonurgent Circumstances And Urgent Circumstances; To Require Health Insurance Issuers To Give Certain Notifications When Making An Adverse Determination; To Establish The Qualifications For Personnel Who Review Appeals Of Prior Authorizations; To Require Health Insurance Issuers To Periodically Review Its Prior Authorization Requirements And To Consider Removal Of These Requirements In Certain Cases; To Provide That A Health Insurance Issuer May Not Revoke Or Further Limit, Condition Or Restrict A Previously Issued Prior Authorization While It Remains Valid Under This Act Unless Certain Exclusions Are Applicable; To Provide How Long Prior Authorization Approvals Shall Be Valid; To Provide How Long The Prior Authorizations For Chronic Conditions Shall Be Valid; To Establish The Procedure For The Continuity Of Prior Approvals From Previous Health Insurance Issuers To Current Issuers; To Provide That A Failure By A Health Insurance Issuer To Comply With The Deadlines And Other Requirements Specified In This Act Shall Result In Any Health Care Services Subject To Review To Be Automatically Deemed Authorized By The Health Insurance Issuer Or Its Contracted Private Review Agent; To Authorize The Department Of Insurance To Issue Cease And Desist Orders To Health Insurance Issuers Or Private Review Agents; To Authorize The State Department Of Insurance To Impose Upon A Private Review Agent, Health Benefit Plan Or Health Insurance Issuer An Administrative Fine Not To Exceed $10,000 Per Violation Of The Act; To Require Health Insurance Issuers To Report To The Department Certain Data; To Require Health Insurance Issuers To Notify The Commissioner Of Insurance Of Suspected Submissions Of False Requests For Prior Authorization; To Require The Commissioner To Have An Administrative Hearing On Such Matters To Resolve The Issue; To Amend Sections 41-83-1, 41-83-3, 41-83-13, 41-83-21, 41-83-31, 83-1-101 And 83-9-6.3, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Conform With The Provisions Of This Act; To Bring Forward Sections 41-83-5, 41-83-7, 41-83-9, 41-83-11, 41-83-15, 41-83-17, 41-83-19, 41-83-23, 41-83-25, 41-83-27 And 41-83-29, Mississippi Code Of 1972, For The Purpose Of Possible Amendment; And For Related Purposes.
STATUS
Passed
SC510 - Mourn the loss and commend the life of Luster Bayless, legendary Costumer to John Wayne.
Lydia Graves Chassaniol, Josh Harkins, Joel Carter
Last updated 6 months ago
29 Co-Sponsors
A Concurrent Resolution Mourning The Loss And Commending The Life And Public Contributions Of Luster Bayless Of Ruleville, Mississippi, Legendary Costumer To John Wayne And Founder Of United American Costume Company, And Expressing The Sympathy Of The Legislature On His Passing.
STATUS
Passed
SB2060 - Memorial bridge; dedicate the Little Biloxi Bridge to World War II Infantryman Willie Edward King.
Joseph M. Seymour, Joel Carter, Mike Thompson
Last updated 5 months ago
5 Co-Sponsors
An Act To Designate The Little Biloxi Bridge On Highway 49 In Harrison County, Mississippi, As The "willie E. King Memorial Bridge" In Memory Of The Late World War Ii Infantryman Willie Edward King; And For Related Purposes.
STATUS
Passed
SB2780 - Authority of Secretary of State to approve leases located on Public Trust Tidelands; clarify.
David Blount, Mike Thompson, Brice Wiggins
Last updated 5 months ago
6 Co-Sponsors
An Act To Define State Jurisdiction Over Public Trust Tidelands And The Authority Of The Secretary Of State To Approve Leases Located On Public Trust Tidelands; To Amend Sections 7-11-11, 29-1-107, 29-15-1, 29-15-3, 29-15-5, 29-15-9, 29-15-10 And 29-15-13, Mississippi Code Of 1972, And To Codify Section 29-15-2, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Declare Legislative Intent Relative To Public Trust Tidelands, To Clarify The Requirement Of A Separate Lease From The Secretary Of State To Rent Land On Public Trust Tidelands Property, To Clarify That The Lease Needed To Move On Shore Is One With The State Or The State Port At Gulfport, To Revise Definitions, To Provide That State-held Tidelands Subject To Public Trust Are Prescribed In Tidelands Maps And Boundary Agreements And Court Orders Confirming The Maps, To Confirm All Authority Over Tidelands In The State Unless Specifically Severed Or Given To A Specific State Agency Or Political Subdivision, To Confirm Authority, Management And Administrative Control Over Tidelands In The Secretary Of State, To Clarify That Only Specific Action By The Legislature Can Divest The Secretary Of State Of Such Management And Control, To Provide That All Uses Of Public Trust Tidelands For Any Gaming Purposes By A Person Possessing Or Applying For A Gaming License Shall Require A Tidelands Lease From The State Through The Secretary Of State And Be Subject To Annual Rent, To Further Clarify That The Secretary Of State Is The Trustee Of The Public Trust Tidelands, To Further Clarify That A Tidelands Lease With The Secretary Of State Is Required For Use Of The Tidelands And That State Agencies And Political Subdivisions Exercising Littoral Or Riparian Rights Also Require A Tidelands Lease, To Provide That These Sections Control All Other Statutes, To Confirm State Ownership And Control Of Tidelands In The Secretary Of State Unless Clear Title Or Control Was Divested, To Provide That Administrative Costs, Legal Fees And Lost Ad Valorem Taxes Shall Be Paid Out Of The Public Trust Tidelands Fund, To Clarify The Need For A Tidelands Lease Even If Rent Exempt, To Clarify That The Use Of Tidelands For Municipal Harbors Requires A Tidelands Lease With The Secretary Of State, And In Conformity Thereto; To Amend Sections 59-7-405 And 59-15-1, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide That If The Use Of The Public Trust Tidelands Is To Construct, Own, Hold, Maintain, Equip, Use, Control And Operate At Seaports Or Harbors, Wharves, Piers, Docks, Warehouses, Cold Storage Facilities, Water And Rail Terminals, Airplane Landing Fields And Strips, And Other Structures And Facilities Needful For The Convenient Use Of The Same In The Aid Of Commerce Navigation And Land, Including The Dredging Of Channels And Approaches To The Facilities, The Local Municipal Governing Authority Shall Have Exclusive Control Of The Leased Premises, And All Revenues Generated Therefrom Shall Be Used To Maintain, Repair Or Improve The Leased Property, To Provide That The Local Governing Authority Shall Not Lease, Sublease, Rent Or Provide Access For Any Gaming Purposes Under This Authority And To Provide That If The Use Of Public Trust Tidelands Is To Acquire, Purchase, Install, Rent, Lease, Mortgage, Incumber, Construct, Own, Hold, Maintain, Equip, Use, Control And Operate Recreational Parks And Harbors For Small Water Craft, The Local Municipal Governing Authority Shall Have Exclusive Control Of The Leased Premises And All Revenues Generated Therefrom Shall Be Used To Maintain, Repair Or Improve The Leased Property; To Amend Sections 75-76-67, 87-1-5, 97-33-1, 97-33-7, 97-33-17, 97-33-25 And 97-33-27, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Define And Clarify The Authority Of The Mississippi Gaming Commission In Determining Legal Gaming Sites And Preliminary Site Approval And To Clarify Areas Authorized For Gaming Casino Operations And The Authority Of The Commission To Regulate Minimum Size, Minimum Improvements And Other Project Requirements; And For Related Purposes.
STATUS
Failed
SB3006 - Appropriation; IHL - General support.
W. Briggs Hopson, John A. Polk, Rita Potts Parks
Last updated 4 months ago
6 Co-Sponsors
An Act Making An Appropriation To The Board Of Trustees Of State Institutions Of Higher Learning For Support Of The Eight Universities For Fiscal Year 2025.
STATUS
Passed
SB3013 - Appropriation; IHL - Student Financial Aid.
W. Briggs Hopson, John A. Polk, Rita Potts Parks
Last updated 4 months ago
6 Co-Sponsors
An Act Making An Appropriation To The Board Of Trustees Of State Institutions Of Higher Learning For The Support And Maintenance Of Financial Aid Scholarship, Loan And Grant Programs And The Mississippi Office Of Student Financial Aid, For Fiscal Year 2025.
STATUS
Passed
SB3009 - Appropriation; IHL - Mississippi State University - Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station.
W. Briggs Hopson, John A. Polk, Rita Potts Parks
Last updated 5 months ago
6 Co-Sponsors
An Act Making An Appropriation For The Support And Maintenance Of The Mississippi Agricultural And Forestry Experiment Station For Fiscal Year 2025.
STATUS
Passed
SB3012 - Appropriation; IHL - Mississippi State University - Veterinary Medicine, College of.
W. Briggs Hopson, John A. Polk, Rita Potts Parks
Last updated 4 months ago
6 Co-Sponsors
An Act Making An Appropriation To The Board Of Trustees Of State Institutions Of Higher Learning For The College Of Veterinary Medicine At Mississippi State University For Fiscal Year 2025.
STATUS
Passed
SB3014 - Appropriation; IHL - University of Mississippi Medical Center.
W. Briggs Hopson, John A. Polk, Rita Potts Parks
Last updated 5 months ago
6 Co-Sponsors
An Act Making An Appropriation For The Purpose Of Defraying The Expenses Of The University Of Mississippi Medical Center For Fiscal Year 2025.
STATUS
Passed
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