SB 2075 Mississippi Senate · 2025 Regular Session

Board of Medical Licensure; revise licensure status, definitions, procedure, fines and temporary practice authority.

SB 2075 revises Mississippi's medical licensure laws to clarify definitions, procedures, and disciplinary actions for the Board of Medical Licensure. It directly affects physicians, medical license applicants, and the licensing board by updating requirements for obtaining licenses (including electronic renewal notices), adding behavioral conduct as grounds for license restrictions, and requiring the Physician Health Program to report performance data to the board. Key provisions include shortening disciplinary hearing timelines (to 30 days for immediate patient safety risks), excluding midwives from the medical practice chapter, and revising temporary license rules. The bill died in committee on March 4, 2025, and has not become law.
Bill status died 3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2025
Committee Review
Feb 2025
Senate Passage
Feb 2025
House Passage
Governor
Introduced Feb 11, 2025 Last action Mar 4, 2025
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What changed between versions

As Introduced Committee Substitute · 10 edits
MAJOR
This bill updates Mississippi's medical practice laws to modernize licensing procedures, strengthen disciplinary actions, and clarify exemptions. Key changes include adding fingerprint-based background checks for all license applicants, extending temporary licenses for addiction treatment physicians, creating a special volunteer license for retired physicians serving indigent patients, and adding new grounds for license discipline such as gender transition procedures for minors. The bill also expands the Board of Medical Licensure to include three public members not related to healthcare and repeals outdated sections requiring annual in-person board meetings.
Scope change
The bill expands the scope of the Medical Practice Act to include behavioral conduct that could be addressed by treatment as grounds for license restriction, while explicitly excluding individuals engaged solely in midwifery practice from the chapter's requirements.
REQUIREMENT

Mandatory fingerprint-based criminal history checks for all medical license applicants and license reinstatement petitioners, with criminal records deemed confidential.

Extended temporary medical licenses for physicians in addiction treatment programs from 90 days to potentially multiple 90-day renewals.

Added prohibition on gender transition procedures for patients under 18 as part of the definition of unlawful practice of medicine.

Repealed sections requiring the State Board of Medical Licensure to meet at the Capitol at least once annually for examining applicants.

DEFINITION

Added 'behavioral conduct that could be addressed by treatment' as a ground for license restriction under the impaired physician law.

ELIGIBILITY

Created a new special volunteer medical license for retired physicians and physician assistants to provide free care to indigent and underserved populations.

ENFORCEMENT

Added punitive fines up to $25,000 per offense (cumulative cap of $100,000) and probation as disciplinary options for the Board of Medical Licensure.

TIMELINE

Changed hearing requirement for immediate danger cases from 15 days to 30 days after temporary suspension.

STRUCTURE

Added three public members to the Board of Medical Licensure who are not related to the healthcare industry.

SCOPE

Explicitly excluded individuals engaged solely in the practice of midwifery from the Medical Practice Act chapter.

Floor votes · Senate Feb 7, 2025

How they voted

490
Passed · 2 other
Total votes 51
Feb 7, 2025
D Democratic16
16 Yea
100% Yea
R Republican35
33 Yea 2
94% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
9
Key actions
3
Committee
3
Amendments
1
Feb 13, 2025
Committee
Referred To Public Health and Human Services;Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency
lower
Feb 11, 2025
Introduced
Transmitted To House
upper
Feb 7, 2025
Upper · Passed
Passed As Amended
upper
Feb 7, 2025
Upper · Passed
Amended
upper
Jan 29, 2025
Upper · Passed
Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub
upper
Jan 17, 2025
Committee
Referred To Public Health and Welfare
upper
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors

Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Photo of Hob Bryan
Hob Bryan
DDemocratic
MS
7