Mississippi House Bill 1033 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Failed on February 2 2021 - 100% progression
Action: 2021-02-02 - Died In Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

An Act To Be Known As The Medicaid Access And Opportunity Act Of 2021; To Require The Executive Director Of The Division Of Medicaid To Present To The Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Speaker Of The House And Chairs Of The Senate And House Medicaid Committees A Feasibility Study Regarding The Application For And Use Of A Block Grant To Finance The State Medicaid Program; To Amend Section 43-17-5, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide That The Department Of Human Services Shall Deny Tanf Benefits To Families That Include An Adult Who Has Received Tanf Assistance For Twenty-four Months, Disregarding Any Months During Which Assistance Is Received By An Adult Recipient Who As A Minor Child Was Not A Head Of Household Or By A Foster Parent, An Unrelated Adult, Or A Nonparent Relative In A Child-only Case; To Create New Section 43-12-73, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Require The Department Of Human Services To Assign Certain Recipients Of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (snap) Benefits To An Employment And Training Program As A Condition Of Participation In The Program; To Create New Section 43-33-801, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Require All Public Housing Authorities To Seek A Federal Waiver To Conduct A Screening Of Each Applicant For And Recipient Of Housing Benefits Administered By The Housing Authority To Determine If The Applicant Or Recipient Is Unemployed Or Underemployed And Able-bodied, And To Create An Employability Plan For Recipients Who Are Able-bodied And Either Unemployed Or Underemployed And Require Participation In The Plan As A Term Of Their Housing Benefits; To Create New Section 43-33-803, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Require All Public Housing Authorities In The State To Distribute Housing Benefits And Select Applicants From Benefit Waiting Lists Giving The Highest Preference To Families Where All Able-bodied Adults In The Household Are Employed; And For Related Purposes.

Medicaid Access and Opportunity Act of 2021; create.

Rep. Joey Hood [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-02-02	House	Died In Committee
2021-01-18	House	Referred To Medicaid

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
43	17	5	Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2021/pdf/history/HB/HB1033.xml
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/HB/1000-1099/HB1033IN.htm