---
type: "Bill"
title: "Living Donor Protection Act; create."
description: "Living Donor Protection Act; create."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 1213"
citation: "Mississippi HB 1213 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Denton"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-14T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-04-17T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0fc120a0-ed2a-476a-a8cb-edd63e9de5e9"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2024/pdf/House_authors/Denton.xml"
source_hash: "8ec70f5e7a5a11817f6d8727caa885f95fb720a42b521013caf11d8dd7ff4f49"
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 1213 (2024) — Living Donor Protection Act; create.

## 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/2024/html/HB/1200-1299/HB1213IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/HB/1200-1299/HB1213PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/HB/1200-1299/HB1213SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **119–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **51–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Denton — primary (person)
- Gibbs (72nd) — cosponsor (person)
- Harness — cosponsor (person)
- Karriem — cosponsor (person)
- Mickens — cosponsor (person)
- Thompson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-14T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-05T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2024-03-21T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2024-04-03T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-04T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2024-04-08T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-04-09T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-04-17T05:00:00+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/0fc120a0-ed2a-476a-a8cb-edd63e9de5e9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).