Key Votes
HB 17 - Medicaid Funds Bill - Key Vote
Mississippi Key Votes
Stages
Family
Issues
- Budget, Spending and Taxes
- Business and Consumers
- Health and Health Care
- Unemployed and Low-Income
- Executive Branch
Stage Details
Legislation - Bill Passed (House) (68-44) - June 27, 2008 (Key vote)
Title: Medicaid Funds Bill
Note:
NOTE: THIS LEGISLATION NEEDED A THREE-FIFTHS MAJORITY VOTE TO PASS.
Legislation - Bill Failed (House) (55-53) - May 29, 2008 (Key vote)
Title: Medicaid Funds Bill
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to pass a bill that increases taxes on cigarettes and alcoholic beverages, levies a tax on non-Medicaid hospital inpatient days, and uses the revenue gained from these taxes to fund the Division of Medicaid.
Highlights:
-Levies an additional tax of 4 and 1/10 cents on each cigarette sold (Sec. 3).
-Levies an additional 1 percent tax on the gross retail proceeds of the sale of alcoholic beverages (Sec. 1).
-Deposits the revenue gained from the taxes on alcoholic beverages and cigarettes in the Division of Medicaid special fund (Secs. 2, 4).
-Levies a tax on hospitals for each non-Medicaid hospital inpatient day (Sec. 6).
Legislation - Introduced (House) - May 29, 2008
Title: Medicaid Funds Bill
