Lactation consultant licensing in Mississippi
No lactation-consultant licence in Mississippi. A 2026 bill to create one — the Mississippi Lactation Consultant Practice Act, which would have required a licence from 1 July 2029 — died without becoming law.
Licence to practise
No licence identified
No effective date recorded
Medicaid billing · consultant who is not a nurse
Not checked yet
Not yet researched
Providers per 10,000 births
8.7
Rank 51 of 51 · US overall 27.9
Where this comes from
Checked against the state’s own law
Dataset compiled 2026-09-11
What we found
- House Bill 1093 (2026 Regular Session) would have made the State Board of Health license lactation consultants and barred unlicensed practice from 1 July 2029. The Legislature's bill record marks it dead (read 2026-09-11).
What this means if you are looking for help
No state licence means the title "lactation consultant" is not restricted in Mississippi. Anyone may use it. That makes checking the IBCLC credential itself the thing that tells you something.
Can a lactation consultant bill Medicaid here?
Whether an IBCLC can enrol with Mississippi Medicaid and bill it directly is a separate policy question from licensing, and we have only worked through 27 of 51 jurisdictions. A blank here means unchecked, not no — ask your plan directly.
Sources
- Mississippi Legislature — HB 1093 (2026), as introduced — read 2026-09-11
- Mississippi Legislature — HB 1093 (2026) bill history — read 2026-09-11
Dataset compiled 2026-09-11. Directly researched. This is a plain-language summary of public sources, not legal advice.