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CS/SB 116: Prescription Insulin Drugs

GENERAL BILL by Banking and Insurance ; Cruz ; (CO-INTRODUCERS) Stewart ; Berman ; Taddeo

Prescription Insulin Drugs; Defining the term “prescription insulin drug”; requiring individual and group health insurance policies, respectively, to cap an insured’s monthly cost-sharing obligation for covered prescription insulin drugs at a specified amount; requiring health benefit plans covering small employers to comply with such requirement; requiring health maintenance contracts to cap a subscriber’s monthly cost-sharing obligation for covered prescription insulin drugs at a specified amount, etc.

Effective Date: 1/1/2021
Last Action: 3/14/2020 Senate - Died in Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/HB 607 (Ch. 2020-9)
Bill Text: Web Page | PDF
Senate Committee References:
  1. Banking and Insurance (BI)
  2. Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government (AEG)
  3. Appropriations (AP)



Bill History

Date Chamber Action
8/7/2019 Senate • Filed
8/16/2019 Senate • Referred to Banking and Insurance; Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; Appropriations -SJ 13
12/2/2019 Senate • On Committee agenda-- Banking and Insurance, 12/10/19, 2:00 pm, 412 Knott Building --Temporarily Postponed
1/10/2020 Senate • On Committee agenda-- Banking and Insurance, 01/15/20, 10:30 am, 412 Knott Building
1/14/2020 Senate • Introduced -SJ 13
1/15/2020 Senate • CS by Banking and Insurance; YEAS 8 NAYS 0 -SJ 154
• Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
1/17/2020 Senate • Now in Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government
1/22/2020 Senate • CS by Banking and Insurance read 1st time -SJ 185
3/14/2020 Senate • Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
• Died in Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/HB 607 (Ch. 2020-9)