---
type: "Bill"
title: "Community hospitals; authorize board of trustees members to participate in health insurance plan."
description: "Community hospitals; authorize board of trustees members to participate in health insurance plan."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 273"
citation: "Mississippi HB 273 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance", "Accountability", "Efficiency", "Transparency"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bain"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-14T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-03-15T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e642e66e-91a7-44a6-a39c-fc200a84b900"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2019/pdf/House_authors/Bain.xml"
source_hash: "21256998e0e5a70aa0cfc9f3eec45e05862de46f52825ed29eb4a33e57a64861"
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 273 (2019) — Community hospitals; authorize board of trustees members to participate in health insurance plan.

## 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/0200-0299/HB0273IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/pdf/ham/HB0273_H_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/HB/0200-0299/HB0273PS.htm)
4. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/HB/0200-0299/HB0273SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **51–1** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **109–4** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bain — primary (person)
- Carpenter — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-14T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-05T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-07T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2019-02-07T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2019-02-08T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2019-02-26T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Insurance;Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: IN To AC
- **2019-03-05T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2019-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2019-03-08T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2019-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2019-03-15T05:00:00+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/e642e66e-91a7-44a6-a39c-fc200a84b900`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).