---
type: "Bill"
title: "Dentists; provide immunity for providing charitable and emergency services."
description: "Dentists; provide immunity for providing charitable and emergency services."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 72"
citation: "Mississippi HB 72 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Judiciary A", "Judiciary", "Division A", "Public Health and Human Services"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mims"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-07T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-17T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7245e748-32e6-4db1-824f-d075c0a62702"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2021/pdf/House_authors/Eubanks.xml"
source_hash: "9a1d7d768e7b4171e81620cea42b4c7c2121bd411642ff63322ba1142fbe517d"
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 72 (2021) — Dentists; provide immunity for providing charitable and emergency services.

## 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/2021/html/HB/0001-0099/HB0072IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/HB/0001-0099/HB0072PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/HB/0001-0099/HB0072SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **50–2** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **110–8** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Mims — primary (person)
- Eubanks — cosponsor (person)
- Felsher — cosponsor (person)
- Haney — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-07T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Public Health and Human Services;Judiciary A `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-26T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: PH To JA
- **2021-01-28T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: JA To PH
- **2021-01-28T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2021-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered (Mims, McGee, Young)
- **2021-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Tabled
- **2021-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2021-02-16T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Judiciary, Division A `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-25T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2021-03-08T06:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered
- **2021-03-11T06:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Tabled
- **2021-03-11T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2021-03-11T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2021-03-12T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2021-03-17T05:00:00+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/7245e748-32e6-4db1-824f-d075c0a62702`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).