---
type: "Bill"
title: "Community health workers; provide for certification of by Health Department and for Medicaid reimbursement for services of."
description: "Community health workers; provide for certification of by Health Department and for Medicaid reimbursement for services of."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1401"
citation: "Mississippi HB 1401 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Medicaid", "Public Health and Human Services", "Public Health and Welfare"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Creekmore"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-20T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-11T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/495b66dc-9e13-418b-b2f4-06df254eff4e"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2025/pdf/House_authors/Creekmore_IV.xml"
source_hash: "3e639f906a3ed17aa666ddae88e6cb35624d245700119fd67c5a9768933e2ecd"
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 1401 (2025) — Community health workers; provide for certification of by Health Department and for Medicaid reimbursement for services of.

## 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/2025/html/HB/1400-1499/HB1401IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/1400-1499/HB1401PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/1400-1499/HB1401SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **112–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **51–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Creekmore — primary (person)
- Summers — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-20T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Medicaid;Public Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-29T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: ME To PH
- **2025-01-30T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: PH To ME
- **2025-01-30T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2025-02-14T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Public Health and Welfare `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-27T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-28T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2025-03-03T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-03-03T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2025-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Law W/out Governor's Signature `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/495b66dc-9e13-418b-b2f4-06df254eff4e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).