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Committee enters several health and affordability bills, including insulin affordability request
Summary
The House Insurance Committee entered multiple bill requests during the session: RS 2830 (Patients Right to Save Act) introduced by Representative Carpenter; RS 2685 on hospital billing screening entered by the chair; 26RS3082 on insurance/patient affordability entered; and 26RS3328 on insulin coverage and an insulin affordability program introduced by Representative Meyer. The committee scheduled further hearings and adjourned.
During a brief House Insurance Committee meeting, members entered several bill requests and recorded introductions without substantive floor debate.
Representative Carpenter introduced RS 2830, identified in the transcript as the Patients Right to Save Act, and the chair entered it without objection for the committee record. The chair also entered RS 2685, a request addressing hospital billing that would require hospitals to screen patients for eligibility for charity care or financial-assistance programs; the chair noted that RS 2685 may ultimately be considered in the Health Committee.
The chair entered 26RS3082, described in the meeting as an insurance affordability or patient affordability act. Later, Representative Meyer introduced 26RS3328, which he described as an act concerning health care and prescription drugs to provide coverage for insulin and diabetes-management devices, create price limitations in health plans, and establish an insulin affordability program for uninsured residents.
Procedural notes: all introductions were entered without objection. The committee noted a scheduled hearing for Wednesday that will be rebooked as "call of the chair" because some witnesses could not travel for the earlier date. The committee adjourned until Monday (and possibly Wednesday), and members were asked to monitor email for scheduling updates.
Ending: No formal votes on these measures were taken during the session; bills were entered for committee consideration.
