Mississippi House Bill 163 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Failed on January 31 2017 - 100% progression
Action: 2017-01-31 - Died In Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

An Act To Direct The Department Of Human Services, State Department Of Health And The Division Of Medicaid To Prepare A Video For Presentation In The Offices In Which Tanf Benefits, Snap Benefits, Food Through The Wic Program, And Medicaid Assistance Are Provided By Those Agencies; To Provide That The Video Shall Provide Information About Proper Nutrition, Healthy Eating Habits, Prevention Of And Reducing Obesity, And The Importance Of Breast-feeding Infants; To Provide That Applicants For And Recipients Of Those Benefits May View The Video In The Office Of The Agency; To Provide That Those Agencies Also Shall Prepare Videos With Information On Prenatal Health Care, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Abstinence Education, Preventive Birth Control, Marriage Education, Parenting Skills, Family Preservation And Fatherhood And Other Related Subjects, For Distribution To Certain Persons And Entities And To The Public Upon Request; And For Related Purposes.

Health and human services agencies; require to prepare videos with certain information for benefit recipients and others.

Rep. Omeria Scott [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-01-31	House	Died In Committee
2017-01-03	House	Referred To Public Health and Human Services;Revenue and Expenditure General Bills

Type	Source
Summary	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2017/pdf/history/HB/HB0163.xml
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2017/html/HB/0100-0199/HB0163IN.htm