Mississippi · Legislation
HB 565 (2026)
Jill Gary Eure Act
- Status
- Enacted
- Effective date
- July 1, 2026
- Last reviewed
- September 24, 2026
- Source review
- Primary source reviewed
Summary
Mississippi enacted the Jill Gary Eure Act, also called Jill's Law, in 2026. The law requires covered health benefit plans, Medicaid, and the State and School Employees Health Insurance Plan to cover qualifying biomarker testing beginning with plans, contracts, or agreements entered into or renewed on or after July 1, 2026.
Topics: Biomarker Testing · Coverage and reimbursement · Health Insurance Coverage · Pharmacogenomics
What it requires or prohibits
Covered plans must provide biomarker-testing coverage for diagnosis, treatment, disease management, or monitoring when the test is supported by specified medical and scientific evidence. The law requires written reasons for qualifying coverage denials, establishes procedures for prior authorization and coverage exceptions, and directs Medicaid to add applicable billing codes to its fee schedule.
In plain language
Health plans covered by the law must pay for medically supported biomarker tests, including certain genomic tests. The definition includes tests for gene mutations and gene-drug interactions, as well as whole-exome, whole-genome, and whole-transcriptome sequencing.
Primary sources
- HB 565 final bill text. Mississippi Legislature. Accessed September 24, 2026.
- HB 565 legislative history. Mississippi Legislature. Accessed September 24, 2026.
Record details
Record metadata
Record history
- January 13, 2026: Bill introduced and referred to two House committees. Source: Mississippi Legislature.
- January 28, 2026: House passed the bill as amended. Source: Mississippi Legislature.
- March 4, 2026: Senate passed the bill. Source: Mississippi Legislature.
- March 16, 2026: Governor approved the bill as Chapter 360. Source: Mississippi Legislature.
- July 1, 2026: Act became effective. Source: Mississippi Legislature.
- September 24, 2026: Record created from the final bill text and legislative history.
Technical metadata
Record ID: ms-hb-565-2026
Topics: biomarker-testing, coverage-and-reimbursement, health-insurance-coverage, pharmacogenomics
Record data file: data/states/mississippi/ms-hb-565-2026.yaml
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Cite this record
Who Owns Your DNA? HB 565 (2026): Jill Gary Eure Act. U.S. Genetics & Genomics Law and Policy Tracker. Record version 1.0. Accessed [date]. https://whoownsyourdna.org/records/ms-hb-565-2026/