---
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).