republic-os/legislation/us/states/ms/2018/hb-709.md

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Bill	Prescription Drugs Consumer Affordable Alternative Payment Options Act; create.	Prescription Drugs Consumer Affordable Alternative Payment Options Act; create.	us/states/ms	Mississippi Legislature	2018	HB 709	Mississippi HB 709 (2018)	bill	Public Health and Human Services Public Health and Welfare	enacted	Mims	4	12	2	2018-01-09T06:00:00+00:00	2018-03-08T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/081b5c00-4be2-461f-950c-2ddce5e909e0	http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2018/pdf//history/HB/HB0709.xml	9ce07367777c6ee9df30ea136dd35f5a246de90c6c36c08af2d4fe73f19006c6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ms

Mississippi HB 709 (2018) — Prescription Drugs Consumer Affordable Alternative Payment Options Act; create.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. As Introduced (filed) — source
2. As Passed the lower (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
4. Current version (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passage — 118–1 (pass) · legislature
• Passage — 51–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Mims — primary (person)
• Arnold — cosponsor (person)
• Bain — cosponsor (person)
• Eubanks — cosponsor (person)
• Gibbs_(72nd) — cosponsor (person)
• Holloway — cosponsor (person)
• Mettetal — cosponsor (person)
• Sanford — cosponsor (person)
• Sykes — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-01-09T06:00:00+00:00 Referred To Public Health and Human Services referral-committee
• 2018-01-23T06:00:00+00:00 Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub committee-passage
• 2018-02-01T06:00:00+00:00 Committee Substitute Adopted substitution
• 2018-02-01T06:00:00+00:00 Passed passage
• 2018-02-05T06:00:00+00:00 Transmitted To Senate introduction
• 2018-02-12T06:00:00+00:00 Referred To Public Health and Welfare referral-committee
• 2018-02-27T06:00:00+00:00 Title Suff Do Pass committee-passage
• 2018-02-28T06:00:00+00:00 Passed passage
• 2018-03-01T06:00:00+00:00 Returned For Enrolling
• 2018-03-05T06:00:00+00:00 Enrolled Bill Signed
• 2018-03-05T06:00:00+00:00 Enrolled Bill Signed
• 2018-03-08T06:00:00+00:00 Approved by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/081b5c00-4be2-461f-950c-2ddce5e909e0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).