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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Group health insurance plan coverage for prescription drugs; authorize medication synchronization for beneficiaries."
+description: "Group health insurance plan coverage for prescription drugs; authorize medication synchronization for beneficiaries."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
+legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "SB 2296"
+citation: "Mississippi SB 2296 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Insurance"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Kirby"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-01-10T06:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2018-03-05T06:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f87aa2f6-e472-4550-9d01-90aa862711aa"
+source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2018/pdf//history/SB/SB2296.xml"
+source_hash: "7dd221d2fb6ab1f1c067e13613d2811b6eec7d345721125f2f45e65d11a99c04"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ms"]
+---
+
+# Mississippi SB 2296 (2018) — Group health insurance plan coverage for prescription drugs; authorize medication synchronization for beneficiaries.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **As Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2018/html/SB/2200-2299/SB2296IN.htm)
+2. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2018/html/SB/2200-2299/SB2296PS.htm)
+3. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2018/html/SB/2200-2299/SB2296CS.htm)
+4. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2018/html/SB/2200-2299/SB2296SG.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage as Amended — **51–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Passage — **118–1** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Kirby — primary (person)
+- Barnett — cosponsor (person)
+- Blackmon — cosponsor (person)
+- Blackwell — cosponsor (person)
+- Branning — cosponsor (person)
+- Browning — cosponsor (person)
+- Burton — cosponsor (person)
+- Carmichael — cosponsor (person)
+- Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- Dawkins — cosponsor (person)
+- DeBar — cosponsor (person)
+- Dearing — cosponsor (person)
+- Doty — cosponsor (person)
+- Frazier — cosponsor (person)
+- Gollott — cosponsor (person)
+- Harkins — cosponsor (person)
+- Hill — cosponsor (person)
+- Horhn — cosponsor (person)
+- Jackson_(11th) — cosponsor (person)
+- Jackson_(32nd) — cosponsor (person)
+- Jordan — cosponsor (person)
+- McDaniel — cosponsor (person)
+- McMahan — cosponsor (person)
+- Moran — cosponsor (person)
+- Norwood — cosponsor (person)
+- Parker — cosponsor (person)
+- Parks — cosponsor (person)
+- Polk — cosponsor (person)
+- Seymour — cosponsor (person)
+- Simmons_(12th) — cosponsor (person)
+- Simmons_(13th) — cosponsor (person)
+- Turner-Ford — cosponsor (person)
+- Watson — cosponsor (person)
+- Witherspoon — cosponsor (person)
+- Younger — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-10T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Insurance `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-24T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
+- **2018-02-06T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
+- **2018-02-06T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2018-02-06T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
+- **2018-02-08T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
+- **2018-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Insurance `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-20T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2018-02-21T06:00:00+00:00** Point of Order Raised
+- **2018-02-21T06:00:00+00:00** Set Aside-Pend Ruling of Chair
+- **2018-02-21T06:00:00+00:00** Amendment Withdrawn `amendment-withdrawal`
+- **2018-02-21T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
+- **2018-02-21T06:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered (Wooten, Chism, Touchstone)
+- **2018-02-22T06:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Tabled
+- **2018-02-22T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
+- **2018-02-23T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
+- **2018-02-26T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
+- **2018-03-05T06:00:00+00:00** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f87aa2f6-e472-4550-9d01-90aa862711aa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).
+