---
type: "Bill"
title: "Medicaid; provide for presumptive eligibility for pregnant women."
description: "Medicaid; provide for presumptive eligibility for pregnant women."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 539"
citation: "Mississippi HB 539 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Medicaid"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McGee"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-24T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-03-12T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9f8b2eb9-011c-4a77-875a-64c4a3308373"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2024/pdf/House_authors/Butler-Washington.xml"
source_hash: "31cafc90068274ff4b5f666ef0c3efbf674353c2cd7ac3a0274090e2a57cd5d7"
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 539 (2024) — Medicaid; provide for presumptive eligibility for pregnant women.

## 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/0500-0599/HB0539IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/HB/0500-0599/HB0539PS.htm)
3. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/HB/0500-0599/HB0539CS.htm)
4. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/HB/0500-0599/HB0539SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **117–5** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **48–4** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- McGee — primary (person)
- Butler-Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Foster — cosponsor (person)
- Gibbs (72nd) — cosponsor (person)
- Hulum — cosponsor (person)
- Mansell — cosponsor (person)
- Nelson — cosponsor (person)
- Scott — cosponsor (person)
- Summers — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-24T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Medicaid `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-31T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-31T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2024-01-31T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2024-02-01T06:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered (Crawford, McGee, Mansell)
- **2024-02-05T06:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Tabled
- **2024-02-05T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2024-02-27T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Medicaid `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-28T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-29T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-01T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2024-03-01T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-03-12T05:00:00+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/9f8b2eb9-011c-4a77-875a-64c4a3308373`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).