---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health benefit plans and Medicaid; require to offer coverage for biomarker testing."
description: "Health benefit plans and Medicaid; require to offer coverage for biomarker testing."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 565"
citation: "Mississippi HB 565 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance", "Public Health and Human Services"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Creekmore"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-01-13T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2026-03-16T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/43c65c06-0e32-4106-b16b-772c0901f413"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2026/pdf/House_authors/Bell_(65th).xml"
source_hash: "771a6e03d72564756a7b7410b00b4c02254609a993ea7d3c53d7ea19f4a4e3a0"
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 565 (2026) — Health benefit plans and Medicaid; require to offer coverage for biomarker testing.

## 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/2026/html/HB/0500-0599/HB0565IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 (Cmte Sub) (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2026/pdf/ham/HB0565_H_(Cmte_Sub)_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **Amendment No 2 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2026/pdf/ham/HB0565_H_Amend_02.pdf)
4. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2026/html/HB/0500-0599/HB0565PS.htm)
5. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2026/html/HB/0500-0599/HB0565SG.htm)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Creekmore — primary (person)
- Bell (65th) — cosponsor (person)
- Currie — cosponsor (person)
- Eure — cosponsor (person)
- Felsher — cosponsor (person)
- McKnight — cosponsor (person)
- Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Scott — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-13T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Public Health and Human Services;Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-22T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: PH To IN
- **2026-01-22T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: IN To PH
- **2026-01-22T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2026-01-28T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2026-01-28T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2026-01-29T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-26T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2026-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2026-03-05T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2026-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2026-03-09T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2026-03-16T05:00:00+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/43c65c06-0e32-4106-b16b-772c0901f413`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).