Mississippi Senate Bill 2609 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Failed on March 3 2020 - 100% progression
Action: 2020-03-03 - Died In Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

An Act To Reenact Sections 41-121-1 Through 41-121-9, Mississippi Code Of 1972, Which Constitute "the Patient's Right To Informed Health Care Choices Act"; To Amend Reenacted Section 41-121-7, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide That A Medical Doctor Or Doctor Of Osteopathic Medicine Shall Not Hold Oneself Out To The Public In Any Manner As Being Certified By A Public Or Private Board Unless Certain Criteria Are Satisfied; To Require A Health Care Practitioner To Wear A Photo Identification Name Tag During All Patient Encounters; To Require All Non-m.d. Or Non-d.o. Health Care Practitioners Who Participate In A Collaborative Practice To Conspicuously Post In His Or Her Office The Name Of The Supervising Physician; To Reenact And Amend Section 41-121-11, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Extend The Automatic Repealer On "the Patient's Right To Informed Health Care Choices Act"; To Amend Sections 73-6-19, 73-9-61, 73-15-29, 73-19-23, 73-21-97, 73-26-5, 73-27-13 And 73-39-77, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Extend The Automatic Repealers On The Provisions That Establish Violations Of "the Patient's Right To Informed Health Care Choices Act" As Specific Grounds For Disciplinary Action Against Licensees; And For Related Purposes.

Patient's Right to Informed Health Care Act; revise and extend repealers relating to.

Sen. Brice Wiggins [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-03-03	Senate	Died In Committee
2020-02-17	Senate	Referred To Public Health and Welfare

Type	Source
Summary	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2020/pdf/history/SB/SB2609.xml
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/SB/2600-2699/SB2609IN.htm