republic-os/legislation/us/states/ms/2018/sb-2296.md

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Bill	Group health insurance plan coverage for prescription drugs; authorize medication synchronization for beneficiaries.	Group health insurance plan coverage for prescription drugs; authorize medication synchronization for beneficiaries.	us/states/ms	Mississippi Legislature	2018	SB 2296	Mississippi SB 2296 (2018)	bill	Insurance	enacted	Kirby	4	18	2	2018-01-10T06:00:00+00:00	2018-03-05T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/f87aa2f6-e472-4550-9d01-90aa862711aa	http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2018/pdf//history/SB/SB2296.xml	7dd221d2fb6ab1f1c067e13613d2811b6eec7d345721125f2f45e65d11a99c04	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ms

Mississippi SB 2296 (2018) — Group health insurance plan coverage for prescription drugs; authorize medication synchronization for beneficiaries.

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 upper (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
4. Current version (committee substitute) — source

Votes

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

Sponsors

• Kirby — primary (person)
• Barnett — cosponsor (person)
• Blackmon — cosponsor (person)
• Blackwell — cosponsor (person)
• Branning — cosponsor (person)
• Browning — cosponsor (person)
• Burton — cosponsor (person)
• Carmichael — cosponsor (person)
• Carter — cosponsor (person)
• Dawkins — cosponsor (person)
• DeBar — cosponsor (person)
• Dearing — cosponsor (person)
• Doty — cosponsor (person)
• Frazier — cosponsor (person)
• Gollott — cosponsor (person)
• Harkins — cosponsor (person)
• Hill — cosponsor (person)
• Horhn — cosponsor (person)
• Jackson_(11th) — cosponsor (person)
• Jackson_(32nd) — cosponsor (person)
• Jordan — cosponsor (person)
• McDaniel — cosponsor (person)
• McMahan — cosponsor (person)
• Moran — cosponsor (person)
• Norwood — cosponsor (person)
• Parker — cosponsor (person)
• Parks — cosponsor (person)
• Polk — cosponsor (person)
• Seymour — cosponsor (person)
• Simmons_(12th) — cosponsor (person)
• Simmons_(13th) — cosponsor (person)
• Turner-Ford — cosponsor (person)
• Watson — cosponsor (person)
• Witherspoon — cosponsor (person)
• Younger — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-01-10T06:00:00+00:00 Referred To Insurance referral-committee
• 2018-01-24T06:00:00+00:00 Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub committee-passage
• 2018-02-06T06:00:00+00:00 Committee Substitute Adopted substitution
• 2018-02-06T06:00:00+00:00 Amended amendment-passage
• 2018-02-06T06:00:00+00:00 Passed As Amended passage
• 2018-02-08T06:00:00+00:00 Transmitted To House introduction
• 2018-02-19T06:00:00+00:00 Referred To Insurance referral-committee
• 2018-02-20T06:00:00+00:00 Title Suff Do Pass committee-passage
• 2018-02-21T06:00:00+00:00 Point of Order Raised
• 2018-02-21T06:00:00+00:00 Set Aside-Pend Ruling of Chair
• 2018-02-21T06:00:00+00:00 Amendment Withdrawn amendment-withdrawal
• 2018-02-21T06:00:00+00:00 Passed passage
• 2018-02-21T06:00:00+00:00 Motion to Reconsider Entered (Wooten, Chism, Touchstone)
• 2018-02-22T06:00:00+00:00 Motion to Reconsider Tabled
• 2018-02-22T06:00:00+00:00 Returned For Enrolling
• 2018-02-23T06:00:00+00:00 Enrolled Bill Signed
• 2018-02-26T06:00:00+00:00 Enrolled Bill Signed
• 2018-03-05T06:00:00+00:00 Approved by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f87aa2f6-e472-4550-9d01-90aa862711aa. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).