Mississippi Senate Bill 2646 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Passed on March 26 2014 - 100% progression
Action: 2014-03-26 - Approved by Governor
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [HTML]

An Act To Create New Section 83-9-353, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Require Health Insurance And Employee Benefit Plans In This State To Provide Coverage And Reimbursement For "store-and-forward Telemedicine Services" And "remote Patient Monitoring Services" To The Same Extent That The Services Would Be Covered And Reimbursed If They Were Provided Through In-person Consultation; To Define "store-and-forward Telemedicine" And "remote Patient Monitoring"; To Amend Section 83-9-351, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Include Employee Benefit Plans In The Requirement For Insurance Reimbursement For Telemedicine Services; And For Related Purposes.

Coverage for telemedicine services; define "store-and-forward" and "remote patient monitoring."

Sen. Terry Burton [R]

2014-03-13 - Senate - Senate Concurred in Amend From House (Y: 51 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2014-02-25 - House - House Passed As Amended (Y: 120 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2014-02-05 - Senate - Senate Passed (Y: 51 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-03-26		Approved by Governor
2014-03-20	House	Enrolled Bill Signed
2014-03-19	Senate	Enrolled Bill Signed
2014-03-13	Senate	Concurred in Amend From House
2014-02-26	House	Returned For Concurrence
2014-02-25	House	Passed As Amended
2014-02-25	House	Amended
2014-02-18	House	Title Suff Do Pass As Amended
2014-02-15	House	Referred To Insurance
2014-02-06	Senate	Transmitted To House
2014-02-05	Senate	Passed
2014-02-05	Senate	Committee Substitute Adopted
2014-01-29	Senate	Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub
2014-01-20	Senate	Referred To Insurance

Type	Source
Summary	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2014/pdf/history/SB/SB2646.xml
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2014/html/SB/2600-2699/SB2646IN.htm
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2014/html/SB/2600-2699/SB2646CS.htm
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2014/html/SB/2600-2699/SB2646PS.htm
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2014/html/SB/2600-2699/SB2646SG.htm
Roll Call	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2014/pdf/votes/senate/0300031.pdf
Roll Call	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2014/pdf/votes/house/0500028.pdf
Roll Call	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2014/pdf/votes/senate/0660006.pdf