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Kansas committee hears bill to allow state tax subtraction for health care sharing ministry contributions
Summary
Supporters told the House Committee on Taxation that health care sharing ministries operate as voluntary, member-to-member assistance and asked Kansas to allow a state income subtraction for contributions beginning tax year 2027; opponents warned the programs can be discriminatory and are not regulated like insurance.
The House Committee on Taxation held a hearing on House Bill 24-45 on an income tax subtraction for certain ‘‘health care sharing’’ contributions, hearing proponents who said the programs provide an affordable, voluntary alternative to insurance and opponents who warned of discrimination and limited consumer protections.
Reviser staff told the committee the bill would create a subtraction modification beginning with tax year 2027 for qualified health care sharing expenses and qualified health care shares received by Kansas residents who are members of qualifying health care sharing ministries. The reviser said the measure is written to prevent ‘‘double dipping’’ with any federal tax treatment.
Joel Noble, representing Samaritan Ministries, described how sharing operates ‘‘member to member,’’ saying, “Health care sharing is not insurance,” and explaining that members send monthly…
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