Senate passes bill to reimburse Mississippi National Guard members for health care costs

Senate passes bill to reimburse Mississippi National Guard members for health care costs

The Mississippi Senate unanimously passed a bill on Monday to reimburse the state’s National Guard members for costs associated with their health care premiums. “It’s a simple bill. What this is going to do is it’s a bill that allows our traditional guardsmen to be reimbursed for their health care,” the bill’s author, Sen. Jeff Tate, R-Meridian, told the chamber before his colleagues quickly moved forward with passage. SB 2018, which now heads t…