---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health insurance; revise mandatory policy provisions to penalize late payments of claims."
description: "Health insurance; revise mandatory policy provisions to penalize late payments of claims."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 628"
citation: "Mississippi HB 628 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chism"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-01-16T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-03-22T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0d818188-8462-4f5d-a49c-9b98481a8727"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2019/pdf/House_authors/Chism.xml"
source_hash: "e05813c063bbb7d0f1ca266bf1e742ca146fd5fc412baede3157025b0760de14"
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 628 (2019) — Health insurance; revise mandatory policy provisions to penalize late payments of claims.

## 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/0600-0699/HB0628IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 (Cmte Sub) (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/pdf/ham/HB0628_H_(Cmte_Sub)_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **Amendment No 1 to Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/pdf/sam/HB0628_S_Amend_01_to_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
4. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 628** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB0628.pdf)
5. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/HB/0600-0699/HB0628PS.htm)
6. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/pdf/sam/HB0628_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
7. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/HB/0600-0699/HB0628CS.htm)
8. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/HB/0600-0699/HB0628SG.htm)

## Votes

- Concurrence in Amendment From Senate — **109–1** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **115–3** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **51–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chism — primary (person)
- Hines — cosponsor (person)
- Paden — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-05T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2019-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Tabled Subject To Call
- **2019-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2019-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2019-02-15T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2019-02-27T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2019-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2019-03-14T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2019-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Concurred in Amend From Senate
- **2019-03-19T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2019-03-19T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2019-03-22T05:00:00+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/0d818188-8462-4f5d-a49c-9b98481a8727`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).