Transgender Mississippians can now face lawsuits for using bathrooms that match their gender identities, public schools have a new funding formula, squatted vehicles are illegal and machine gun conversion devices are now banned under just some of the hundreds of new laws that took effect in Mississippi on July 1.
Below is a rundown of many of the laws that took effect in Mississippi this month.
Presumptive Medicaid Eligibility For Pregnancy
Pregnant people who have low incomes will now be able to gain access to Medicaid coverage through presumptive eligibility while the Division of Medicaid considers their applications to the official program under House Bill 539.
“We are not a healthy state,” Sen. Nicole Boyd, R-Oxford, said on the Senate floor on Feb. 29. “According to all leading health care experts, the most critical mechanism to prevent adverse pregnancy outcomes and risk is to get adequate prenatal care.”
FILE – Mississippi state Sen. Nicole Boyd, R-Oxford, listens to a discussion during a Joint Legislative Budget Committee meeting, Nov. 15, 2023, in Jackson, Miss. Boyd said on Thursday, Nov. 29, 2024, that Mississippi could improve health outcomes for mothers and babies by allowing Medicaid coverage earlier in pregnancy. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File) ” data-image-caption=”
“We are not a healthy state. According to all leading health care experts, the most critical mechanism to prevent adverse pregnancy outcomes and risk is to get adequate prenatal care,” Mississippi Sen. Nicole Boyd, R-Oxford, said. The Legislature sent a bill to the governor’s desk on Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024, that would allow women with low incomes to get Medicaid coverage earlier in pregnancy. AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File
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