Skip to content

News

News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
March 22, 2016

Workplace Breastfeeding bill passes MS Senate

Bill ensures clean breastfeeding areas in workplaces The Senate recently passed a bill that would ensure women have a “clean space” to breastfeed at work. Sponsored by Sen. Hillman Frazier, D-Jackson, and Sen. Tammy Witherspoon, D-McComb, Senate Bill 2070 states in part that employers provide employees the “benefit of private, secure, sanitary room or other…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
March 22, 2016

MS Senate passes bill to require regular Medicaid audit, electronic records system

Medicaid, SNAP crackdown: Records, audits eyed The Mississippi Senate passed a narrower version of a bill Monday that would require an electronic records system for Medicaid and a regular audit of Medicaid recipients. House Bill 1116 would hire an outside company to build a computerized record of Medicaid recipients’ information. The Senate version, approved Monday…