---
type: "Bill"
title: "Hemodialysis technicians; provide for registration under State Board of Health."
description: "Hemodialysis technicians; provide for registration under State Board of Health."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1048"
citation: "Mississippi HB 1048 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Health and Human Services", "Public Health and Welfare"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Johnson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-21T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-03-21T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5a847bed-7556-40f2-9ebc-668d56118f2a"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2019/pdf/House_authors/Dixon.xml"
source_hash: "b59027ab4ee52724af2f75e165225e6884f3b1dd37cf0d7380d1082a3b52ae68"
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 HB 1048 (2019) — Hemodialysis technicians; provide for registration under State Board of Health.

## 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/2019/html/HB/1000-1099/HB1048IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/HB/1000-1099/HB1048PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/HB/1000-1099/HB1048SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **50–1** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **112–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Johnson — primary (person)
- Dixon — cosponsor (person)
- Sykes — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-01-21T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Public Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-31T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-07T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2019-02-08T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2019-02-26T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Public Health and Welfare `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-05T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2019-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2019-03-15T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2019-03-15T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2019-03-21T05:00:00+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/5a847bed-7556-40f2-9ebc-668d56118f2a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).