An Act Making An Appropriation To The State Department Of Health For The Purpose Of Providing Funds For The Mississippi Hospital Emergency Grant Program Established In House Bill No. _____, 2026 Regular Session, For The Period Beginning Upon The Passage Of This Act And Ending June 30, 2027.

An Act To Create A Hazard Pay For Essential Health Care Workers Grant Program, To Be Administered By The State Department Of Health, To Provide $1,500 In Premium Pay For Essential Health Care Workers Who Perform Jobs In Public Settings That Subject Them To An Elevated Risk Of Exposure To Covid-19; To Define Certain Terms; To Require The Department To Establish A Procedure For Employers Of Essential Health Care Workers To Apply For Grant Funds; To Require The Department To Submit An Annual Report On The Program To The Legislative Budget Committee; And For Related Purposes.

An Act To Provide For The Licensure And Regulation Of Professional Midwifery; To Provide Definitions For The Purpose Of The Act; To Provide Exceptions To The Applicability Of The Act; To Provide The Scope Of Practice For Licensed Midwives; To Provide Mandatory Procedures For Licensed Midwives; To Prohibit Licensed Midwives From Certain Actions; To Create The State Board Of Licensed Midwifery And Provide For Its Composition, Appointment And Powers And Duties; To Require The Board To Promulgate Rules Not Later Than July 1, 2027; To Require A License From The Board To Practice Professional Midwifery; To Provide For The Issuance Of Temporary Permits To Practice Pending Qualification For Licensure; To Provide Exemptions From Licensure For Certain Persons; To Provide For The Confidentiality Of Information Maintained By The Board; To Provide Immunity For Certain Actions; To Provide Criminal Penalties For Violations Of This Act; To Prohibit Terminology In Any Health Coverage Plan, Policy Or Contract That Is Discriminatory Against Professional Midwifery; To Require Health Coverage Plans That Provide Maternity Benefits To Provide Coverage For Services Rendered By A Licensed Midwife; To Provide Whenever A Health Coverage Plan Provides For Reimbursement Of Any Services That Are Within The Lawful Scope Of Practice Of Licensed Midwives, The Person Entitled To Benefits Under The Plan Shall Be Entitled To Reimbursement For The Services, Whether The Services Are Performed By A Physician Or A Licensed Midwife; To Require The State Department Of Health To Develop And Institute A Safe Perinatal Transfer Certification For The Facilities That It Regulates; To Amend Section 73-25-33, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Remove The Reference To The Practice Of Midwifery In The Definition Of The Practice Of Medicine; And For Related Purposes.

An Act To Define State Jurisdiction Over Public Trust Tidelands And The Authority Of The Secretary Of State To Approve Leases Located On Public Trust Tidelands; To Amend Sections 7-11-11, 29-1-107, 29-15-1, 29-15-3, 29-15-5, 29-15-9, 29-15-10 And 29-15-13, Mississippi Code Of 1972, And To Codify Section 29-15-2, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Declare Legislative Intent Relative To Public Trust Tidelands, To Clarify The Requirement Of A Separate Lease From The Secretary Of State To Rent Land On Public Trust Tidelands Property, To Clarify That The Lease Needed To Move On Shore Is One With The State Or The State Port At Gulfport, To Revise Definitions, To Provide That State-held Tidelands Subject To Public Trust Are Prescribed In Tidelands Maps And Boundary Agreements And Court Orders Confirming The Maps, To Confirm All Authority Over Tidelands In The State Unless Specifically Severed Or Given To A Specific State Agency Or Political Subdivision, To Confirm Authority, Management And Administrative Control Over Tidelands In The Secretary Of State, To Clarify That Only Specific Action By The Legislature Can Divest The Secretary Of State Of Such Management And Control; To Amend Sections 59-7-405 And 59-15-1, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide That The Local Governing Authority Shall Not Lease, Sublease, Rent Or Provide Access For Any Gaming Purposes Under This Authority; To Amend Sections 75-76-67, 87-1-5, 97-33-1, 97-33-7, 97-33-17, 97-33-25 And 97-33-27, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Define And Clarify The Authority Of The Mississippi Gaming Commission In Determining Legal Gaming Sites And Preliminary Site Approval And To Clarify Areas Authorized For Gaming Casino Operations And The Authority Of The Commission To Regulate Minimum Size, Minimum Improvements And Other Project Requirements; And For Related Purposes.

An Act Making An Appropriation To The Board Of Trustees Of State Institutions Of Higher Learning For The Purpose Of Providing Funding To Jackson State University To Assist In Paying Costs Associated With The Construction Of An Athletic Stadium To Host The University's Sporting Events For The Fiscal Year 2027.

An Act To Amend Section 43-17-5, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Require The Department Of Human Services To Provide Child Care And Transportation For Applicants For Tanf Benefits During The Application Processing Period, Job Readiness Class, Work Program Intake Process And Other Initial Orientation Meetings; And For Related Purposes.

An Act To Amend Section 21-23-7, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Revise The Age For Expunction Of Misdemeanors; And For Related Purposes.

An Act To Provide For The Certification Of Birth Doulas By The State Department Of Health; To Require The Department To Establish The Competency-based Requirements That A Birth Doula Must Meet To Obtain Certification; To Require The Department To Establish Certification And Renewal Fees, Administrative Procedures, Disciplinary Procedures, Continuing Education Requirements, Administrative Requirements And Forms Necessary To Implement This Act; To Create In The State Treasury A Special Fund To Be Known As The Birth Doula Certification Fund, And Provide That Monies In The Fund Shall Be Expended By The Department For The Administration Of This Act; To Provide That This Act Does Not Prohibit A Person From Practicing As A Birth Doula Without Obtaining Certification Under This Act; To Prohibit Persons From Using The Title "state-certified Birth Doula" In Connection With The Person's Name To Indicate Or Imply That The Person Is A State-certified Birth Doula Without Being Certified As A Birth Doula In Accordance With This Act; And For Related Purposes.

An Act To Amend Section 41-7-191, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Authorize The State Department Of Health To Issue A Certificate Of Need For The Construction Or Expansion Of Nursing Facility Beds Or The Conversion Of Other Beds To Nursing Facility Beds In Jones County, Not To Exceed Sixty Beds; And For Related Purposes.

A Concurrent Resolution Commending And Congratulating The Warren Central High School Boys And Girls Swimming Teams And Coach Terry Wong Upon Winning The 2025 Mississippi High School Activities Association Class Ii State Championships.

An Act To Authorize The Issuance Of State General Obligation Bonds To Provide Funds To Assist The City Of Natchez, Mississippi, In Paying Costs Associated With The City's Concord Avenue Drainage Improvement Project; And For Related Purposes.

An Act To Amend Section 25-11-123, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Require Each Employer In The Public Employees' Retirement System That Contracts With Individuals To Perform Services For Or On Behalf Of The Employer As A Contract Worker, Contractual Employee Or Independent Contractor To Pay Into The Employer's Accumulation Account Of The System A Certain Percentage Of The Total Compensation That Is Paid To The Individual Under The Contract, If The Services Contracted For Are Services That Are Typically Performed By Regular Employees Of The Employer And Are Still Being Performed By Or Were Formerly Performed By Active Members Of The System For Or On Behalf Of The Employer; To Provide That The Percentage Shall Be The Same As The Employer's Contribution Rate That Is Paid On Account Of Each Member Who Became A Member Of The System Before March 1, 2026; And For Related Purposes.

An Act To Create The Mississippi Rx Kids Program As A Pilot Program To Provide Targeted Time-limited Economic Assistance To All Pregnant Women In Those Counties Who Are Experiencing An Acute Economic Hardship During Their Pregnancy And For Twelve Months After Giving Birth; To Specify The Eligibility Criteria For The Program And Amounts Of Cash Prescriptions That The Woman Is Eligible To Receive; To Provide That The Program Is A Public-private Partnership That Combines Public Funding From State And Federal Sources With Private Funding; To Provide That The Program Shall Be Based At And Administered By The University Of Mississippi Medical Center; To Provide Ummc Shall Contract With A Nonprofit Entity To Provide For The Administration Of The Program; To Provide That The Cash Prescriptions Are Considered To Be Nontaxable Private Gifts Made By The Nonprofit Entity; To Provide That The Nonprofit Entity Shall Distribute The Prescriptions As Direct Deposits For Financial Institutions Or Through Reloadable Debit Cards; To Provide That All Cash Prescriptions Shall Be Funded Using A Mixture Of Private And Public Funds; To Provide That The Program Shall Use Tanf Funds Through "non-recurrent Short-term Benefits" (nrst) For The Prenatal Transfers And The First Three Months Of Infant Transfers For All Medicaid-covered Prenatal Care And Births; To Provide That The Program Must Use Other Public Non-tanf Funds Or Private Funds For The Other Nine Months Of Infant Transfers And For All Prenatal Care And Births That Are Not Covered By Medicaid; To Direct The Department Of Human Services Amend The State Plans Of Certain Public Benefits Programs To Exclude All Cash Prescriptions Under The Program From The Income Calculators For Those Programs And To Apply For Any Necessary Federal Waivers, In Order To Protect Those Public Benefits For Which Eligibility Is Income Based For Program Participants To The Greatest Extent Possible; To Provide That The Pilot Program Shall Be Operated For A Period Of Three Years; To Provide That During The Period Of Operation And At The End Of The Program, Ummc Shall Measure And Evaluate The Outcomes Of Births In The Counties In The Program And Provide Such Information To The Legislature; And For Related Purposes.

An Act To Authorize The Mississippi Lottery Corporation Board Of Directors To Authorize Video Lottery And Video Lottery Terminals With Limitations On Transaction Costs, Maximum Payouts And Locations; To Amend Sections 27-115-5, 27-115-17, 27-115-69 And 27-115-83, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Conform To The Provisions Of This Act; And For Related Purposes.

An Act To Require The Department Of Corrections To Convert The Three Restitution Centers In The State To Post-release Reentry Centers; To Provide That The Post-release Reentry Centers Shall Be For Individuals Who Are Eligible For Release, Including Those Eligible For Parole And Early Release Supervision, If Such Individuals Do Not Have Immediate Access To Housing Upon Release; To Require The Department To Administer Services In The Post-release Reentry Centers As Well As Other Facilities That Provide Post-release Reentry Services; To Require The Department To Assist Residents Of The Centers In Obtaining Certain Reentry Necessities Such As Housing, Job Skills Training And Driver's Licenses; To Amend Section 45-33-25, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide That Certain Residence Restrictions Shall Not Apply To Post-release Reentry Centers; To Amend Section 45-33-35, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Conform To The Preceding Section; And For Related Purposes.