---
type: "Bill"
title: "Ambulance services; provide for payment for treatment in place and provide for minimum reimbursement rate in health insurance policies."
description: "Ambulance services; provide for payment for treatment in place and provide for minimum reimbursement rate in health insurance policies."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 1489"
citation: "Mississippi HB 1489 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hobgood-Wilkes"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 24
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-02-19T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-05-02T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/075b9873-9d4d-4ab7-b3ce-c7371eee5b22"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2024/pdf/House_authors/Arnold.xml"
source_hash: "c6467bea3b3bd6d4089d9a2a907524a7ee227aaac7325a334ddfe00c4ab3031c"
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 1489 (2024) — Ambulance services; provide for payment for treatment in place and provide for minimum reimbursement rate in health insurance policies.

## 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/1400-1499/HB1489IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 2 to Substitute No 1 for Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/pdf/sam/HB1489_S_Amend_02_to_Subst_1_for_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 1489** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB1489.pdf)
4. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/HB/1400-1499/HB1489PS.htm)
5. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/HB/1400-1499/HB1489CS.htm)
6. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/HB/1400-1499/HB1489SG.htm)
7. **Substitute No 1 for Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/pdf/sam/HB1489_S_Subst_1_for_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)

## Votes

- Passage as Amended — **51–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **121–0** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **50–0** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **119–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **50–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hobgood-Wilkes — primary (person)
- Arnold — cosponsor (person)
- Barton — cosponsor (person)
- Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
- Hines — cosponsor (person)
- Mickens — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-05T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2024-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-14T05:00:00+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 As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2024-04-10T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2024-04-10T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2024-04-10T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered
- **2024-04-11T05:00:00+00:00** Reconsidered
- **2024-04-11T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2024-04-11T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2024-04-12T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2024-04-16T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2024-04-16T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Turner,Arnold,Carpenter
- **2024-04-17T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Michel,McLendon,Whaley
- **2024-04-18T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2024-04-18T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2024-04-19T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2024-04-24T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2024-04-26T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-04-26T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-05-02T05:00:00+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/075b9873-9d4d-4ab7-b3ce-c7371eee5b22`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).