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Bills from the 2019–20 session

Assembly Bill 411

Cost sharing for insulin under health insurance policies and plans

Stopped in committee

It never got a ⁠, so it never came up for a vote. To try again, a lawmaker would have to start a new bill.

  1. Introduced, passed

    Sep 5, 2019

  2. Committee, stopped here

    Stopped here. No public hearing was held.

  3. Assembly vote, not reached

  4. Senate vote, not reached

  5. Governor, not reached

  6. Law, not reached

Latest entry in the official record, Apr 1, 2020: “Failed to pass pursuant to ⁠”

It never got a hearing in the Assembly Committee on Insurance. See every bill that never got a hearing this session.

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What it would have done

Summary by the , the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.

This bill prohibits every health insurance policy and governmental self-insured health plan that covers insulin and that imposes cost sharing on prescription drugs from imposing cost sharing on insulin in an amount that exceeds the lesser of the following: $100 for a one-month supply of insulin or the greater of the amount that is 125 percent of the cost of insulin or the amount generated by subtracting 51 percent of the total rebates received by the policy or plan from the cost-sharing amount that would be charged to a covered person for insulin if it is treated as any other prescription drug under the policy or plan. The bill also requires the commissioner of insurance to investigate and report on the pricing of insulin.

Health insurance policies are known in the bill as disability insurance policies.

Read the full summary

Current law requires every health insurance policy that provides coverage of expenses incurred for treatment of diabetes to provide coverage for expenses incurred by the installation and use of an insulin infusion pump; coverage for all other equipment and supplies, including insulin or any other prescription medication, used in the treatment of diabetes; and coverage of diabetic self-management education programs. Except for allowing an exception for insulin infusion pump coverage, the required coverage under current law for certain diabetes treatments is subject to the same exclusions, limitations, deductibles, and coinsurance provisions of the policy as other covered expenses. The bill's cost-sharing limitations on insulin supersede the specification that the exclusions, limitations, deductibles, and coinsurance are the same as for other coverage.

This proposal may contain a health insurance mandate requiring a social and financial impact report under s. 601.423, stats.

Who's behind it

20 lawmakers are its ⁠. All 20 are Democrats.

10 more lawmakers ⁠.

See all 30 names

Authors (20)

Signed on in support (10)

What happened

  1. Apr 1, 2020

    The session ended, and the bill died with it.

  2. Dec 19, 2019

    2 more representatives signed on in support.

  3. Sep 20, 2019

    “Commissioner of Insurance report received pursuant to s.601.423(2), Wisconsin Statutes” (the official wording)

  4. Sep 10, 2019

    1 more representative signed on in support.

  5. Sep 5, 2019

    Sent to the Assembly Committee on Insurance.

  6. Sep 5, 2019

    Introduced in the Assembly.

See the official record, word for word
  1. Sep 5, 2019 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Anderson, Billings, Shankland, Bowen, Brostoff, Crowley, Emerson, Fields, Gruszynski, Milroy, Ohnstad, Sargent, Sinicki, Spreitzer, Stuck, Subeck, Vining, Zamarripa, Riemer and B. Meyers; cosponsored by Senators Hansen, Ringhand, Carpenter, Erpenbach, Larson, Miller, Risser and L. Taylor

  2. Sep 5, 2019 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Insurance

  3. Sep 10, 2019 · Assembly

    Representative Considine added as a coauthor

  4. Sep 20, 2019 · Assembly

    Commissioner of Insurance report received pursuant to s.601.423(2), Wisconsin Statutes

  5. Dec 19, 2019 · Assembly

    Representatives Hebl and Haywood added as coauthors

  6. Apr 1, 2020 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

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Committee

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Public hearing

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Senate Joint Resolution 1

The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.

Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1. More in the glossary

Legislative Reference Bureau

The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.

Official term: LRB analysis. More in the glossary

Author

A lawmaker who formally puts a bill forward. The text itself is drafted by the Legislative Reference Bureau.

Official term: Author, coauthor. More in the glossary

Signed on in support

Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.

Official term: Cosponsor. More in the glossary

From the Wisconsin Legislature's official record, checked Sep 15, 2026. See the source

Committee

A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.

Public hearing

A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.

Senate Joint Resolution 1

The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.

Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1

Legislative Reference Bureau

The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.

Official term: LRB analysis

Author

A lawmaker who formally puts a bill forward. The text itself is drafted by the Legislative Reference Bureau.

Official term: Author, coauthor

Signed on in support

Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.

Official term: Cosponsor