---
type: "Bill"
title: "MS Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association Act; revise to include HMO subscriber contracts and certificates."
description: "MS Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association Act; revise to include HMO subscriber contracts and certificates."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 2227"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2227 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kirby"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-31T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2020-06-10T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6889bdb3-43a9-43a4-8d73-c8f0b4bdfd3f"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2020/pdf/House_authors/Michel.xml"
source_hash: "2ae4ee237b6e8ff75f568cf71b2e212c8f0664f36db381bb3f89495f4b22f487"
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 2227 (2020) — MS Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association Act; revise to include HMO subscriber contracts and certificates.

## 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/2020/html/SB/2200-2299/SB2227IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/SB/2200-2299/SB2227PS.htm)
3. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/SB/2200-2299/SB2227CS.htm)
4. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/SB/2200-2299/SB2227SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **51–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **116–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kirby — primary (person)
- Michel — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-31T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-05T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2020-03-05T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2020-03-25T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-27T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-05-28T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2020-05-29T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2020-06-03T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2020-06-03T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2020-06-10T05:00:00+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/6889bdb3-43a9-43a4-8d73-c8f0b4bdfd3f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).