Mississippi
Explore the Mississippi records currently included in this collection. Coverage is not complete.
State Laws Database: 3 records
NHGRI database archive: 23 records
Status: 2 enacted or approved; 0 proposed or pending
Most common mapped topics: Health Insurance Nondiscrimination (12) · Privacy (7) · Employment Nondiscrimination (4)
Records in Mississippi
Showing 20 of 26; State Laws Database records appear first.
| Jurisdiction | Law or policy | Topics | Status | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | Jill Gary Eure ActWho Owns Your DNA?Legislation · Effective: July 1, 2026Primary source | Biomarker Testing, Coverage and reimbursement, Health Insurance Coverage, Pharmacogenomics | Enacted | 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. |
| Mississippi | Missing- and unidentified-person identification proceduresWho Owns Your DNA?Legislation · Effective: July 1, 2026Primary source | Genetic Data & Law Enforcement | Enacted | Mississippi enacted HB 377 in 2026 to establish procedures for missing- and unidentified-person investigations. The law governs the collection and submission of specified DNA information and requires forensic genetic genealogy testing of unidentified human remains in state custody after a specified period. |
| Mississippi | Mississippi Consumer Privacy Protection ActWho Owns Your DNA?Legislation · Last action: February 3, 2026Primary source | Consumer Personal Data Privacy | Died | Mississippi HB 1051 did not become law. It would have established a comprehensive consumer-privacy framework that classified processing genetic data for the purpose of uniquely identifying an individual as sensitive-data processing. |
| Mississippi | 2019 State Bills Mississippi 2019 HB 1253NHGRI archive2019 legislative sessionPrimary source | Privacy | Died | Enacts the Consumer privacy Act. Provides certain rights to consumers such as the right to know the categories and specific pieces of personal information collected and the right to require a business to delete personal information. Personal information is defined to include biometric information such as DNA sequences. 02/05 (H) Died In Committee |
| Mississippi | 2019 State Bills Mississippi 2019 SB 2098NHGRI archive2019 legislative sessionPrimary source | Other Topics | Died | Allows parents to request exemption of their children from certain activities during a school year, including the collection, tracking, housing, reporting, selling, or sharing with any party outside of the local school district, of noneducational-related information on my child or my family, including, but not limited to DNA sequences. 02/05 (S) Died In Committee. |
| Mississippi | 2018 State Bills Mississippi 2018 HB 522NHGRI archive2018 legislative sessionPrimary source | Health Insurance Nondiscrimination | Died | Prohibits health plans from denying coverage for a preexisting condition unless certain conditions are met. Genetic information may not be excluded as a preexisting condition in the absence of a diagnosis of the condition related to the genetic information. 1/30/2018 Died in Committee. |
| Mississippi | 2018 State Bills Mississippi 2018 SB 2146NHGRI archive2018 legislative sessionPrimary source | Privacy | Died | Allows parents to opt out of the collection, tracking, housing, reporting, selling, or sharing with any party outside of the local school district, of noneducational-related information on a child or his or her family, including a DNA sequence. 1/30/2018 Died in Committee. |
| Mississippi | 2018 State Bills Mississippi 2018 SB 2406NHGRI archive2018 legislative sessionPrimary source | Health Insurance Coverage | Died | Requires group or individual policies, contracts or certificates of health insurance issued or renewed to cover comprehensive ultrasound screening of an entire breast or breasts if a woman is believed to be at increased risk for breast cancer due to family history or prior personal history of breast cancer, positive genetic testing or other indications as determined by a woman's physician or advanced practice registered nurse. 1/30/2018 Died in committee. |
| Mississippi | 2017 State Bills Mississippi 2017 HB 175NHGRI archive2017 legislative sessionPrimary source | Health Insurance Nondiscrimination | Died | Creates the small business health insurance pool. Health benefit plans covering small employers may not exclude genetic information as a preexisting condition in the absence of a diagnosis of the condition related to the genetic information. 1/31/2017 Died in Committee. |
| Mississippi | 2017 State Bills Mississippi 2017 SB 2581NHGRI archive2017 legislative sessionPrimary source | Privacy | Died | Allows parents or legal guardians of students enrolled in public schools to opt-out of sharing their child's personal information with the federal government and other agencies and private contractors. Personal information includes a DNA sequence. 1/31/2017 Died in Committee. |
| Mississippi | 2016 State Bills Mississippi 2016 HB 449NHGRI archive2016 legislative sessionPrimary source | Health Insurance Nondiscrimination | Died | Creates the small business health insurance pool. Health benefit plans covering small employers may not use genetic information to establish a pre-existing condition exclusion in the absence of a diagnosis of a condition related to the genetic information. 2/23/2016 (H) Died In Committee. |
| Mississippi | 2016 State Bills Mississippi 2016 HB 985NHGRI archive2016 legislative sessionPrimary source | Privacy | Died | Creates the parental authority act. Parental rights include the he right to be notified in advance and to refuse or to consent in writing before any record of the minor child's blood or deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is created, stored or shared, with some exceptions. 2/23/2016 (H) Died In Committee. |
| Mississippi | 2016 State Bills Mississippi 2016 SB 2775NHGRI archive2016 legislative sessionPrimary source | Privacy | Died | Enacts the Parents Matter Act. Parental rights include the right to be notified in advance and to refuse or to consent in writing before any record of the minor child's blood or deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is created, stored or shared, with some exceptions. 2/23/2016 (S) Died In Committee. |
| Mississippi | 2016 State Bills Mississippi 2016 Senate Bill 2547NHGRI archive2016 legislative sessionPrimary source | Privacy | Died | Allows parents to opt out of certain activities conducted by the public school districts, including the collection of biometric information. Biometric information is defined to include DNA. 2/23/2016 (S) Died In Committee. |
| Mississippi | 2014 State Bills Mississippi 2014 HB 172NHGRI archive2014 legislative sessionPrimary source | Employment Nondiscrimination | Died | Makes it unlawful for any employer or insurer to use the results of DNA testing against a patient or against the patient's consanguineous family members for any discriminatory purpose. Any employer who violates this section shall, upon conviction, be fined up to $5,000.00 or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both. Died in Committee on February 4, 2014. |
| Mississippi | 2013 State Bills Mississippi 2013 HB 1532NHGRI archive2013 legislative sessionPrimary source | Employment Nondiscrimination, Health Insurance Nondiscrimination | Died | Prohibits any employer or insurer from using the results of DNA testing against a patient or against the patient's consanguineous family members for any discriminatory purpose. Any employer who violates this section may, upon conviction, be fined up to Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) or imprisoned for not more than one (1) year, or both. Died. |
| Mississippi | 2013 State Bills Mississippi 2013 HB 233NHGRI archive2013 legislative sessionPrimary source | Health Insurance Nondiscrimination | Died | Creates a small business health insurance pool. Genetic information may not be excluded as a preexisting condition in the small business health insurance pool in the absence of a diagnosis of the condition related to the genetic information. Died. |
| Mississippi | 2013 State Bills Mississippi 2013 HB 311NHGRI archive2013 legislative sessionPrimary source | Employment Nondiscrimination | Died | Creates a small business health insurance pool. WIth regard to the pool, genetic information may not be excluded as a preexisting condition in the absence of a diagnosis of the condition related to the genetic information. Died. |
| Mississippi | 2012 State Bills Mississippi 2012 HB 497NHGRI archive2012 legislative sessionPrimary source | Health Insurance Nondiscrimination | Died | In the group health market genetic information may not be excluded as a preexisting condition in the absence of a diagnosis of the condition related to the genet ic information. Measure failed. |
| Mississippi | 2011 State Bills Mississippi 2011 HB 904NHGRI archive2011 legislative sessionPrimary source | Health Insurance Nondiscrimination | Died | Genetic information may not be excluded as a preexisting condition in the absence of a diagnosis of the condition related to the genetic information. Measure failed. |