Senate Bill 340
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.
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Introduced, passed
Aug 8, 2019
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Committee, stopped here
Stopped here. No public hearing was held.
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Senate vote, not reached
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Assembly vote, not reached
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Governor, not reached
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Law, not reached
Latest entry in the official record, Apr 1, 2020: “Failed to pass pursuant to ”
It never got a hearing in the Senate Committee on Insurance, Financial Services, Government Oversight and Courts. See every bill that never got a hearing this session.
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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
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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
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.
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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
8 senators are its . All 8 are Democrats.
23 more lawmakers .
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Authors (8)
- Tim Carpenter · Democrat, Senate
- Jon Erpenbach · Democrat, Senate
- Dave Hansen · Democrat, Senate
- Lena Taylor · Democrat, Senate
- Chris Larson · Democrat, Senate
- Mark Miller · Democrat, Senate
- Janis Ringhand · Democrat, Senate
- Fred A. Risser · Democrat, Senate
Signed on in support (23)
- Jimmy Anderson · Democrat, Assembly
- Beth Meyers · Democrat, Assembly
- Jill Billings · Democrat, Assembly
- David Bowen · Democrat, Assembly
- Jonathan Brostoff · Democrat, Assembly
- Dave Considine · Democrat, Assembly
- David Crowley · Democrat, Assembly
- Jodi Emerson · Democrat, Assembly
- Jason Fields · Democrat, Assembly
- Staush Gruszynski · Democrat, Assembly
- Kalan Haywood · Democrat, Assembly
- Gary Hebl · Democrat, Assembly
- Nick Milroy · Democrat, Assembly
- Tod Ohnstad · Democrat, Assembly
- Daniel Riemer · Democrat, Assembly
- Melissa Sargent · Democrat, Assembly
- Katrina Shankland · Democrat, Assembly
- Christine Sinicki · Democrat, Assembly
- Mark Spreitzer · Democrat, Senate
- Amanda Stuck · Democrat, Assembly
- Lisa Subeck · Democrat, Assembly
- Robyn Vining · Democrat, Assembly
- JoCasta Zamarripa · Democrat, Assembly
What happened
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Apr 1, 2020
The session ended, and the bill died with it.
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Sep 10, 2019 to Dec 19, 2019
3 more representatives signed on in support.
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Aug 22, 2019
“Commissioner of Insurance report received pursuant to s.601.423(2), Wisconsin Statutes” (the official wording)
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Aug 8, 2019
Sent to the Senate Committee on Insurance, Financial Services, Government Oversight and Courts.
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Aug 8, 2019
Introduced in the Senate.
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- Aug 8, 2019 · Senate
Introduced by Senators Hansen, Ringhand, Carpenter, Erpenbach, Larson, Miller, Risser and L. Taylor; cosponsored by Representatives Anderson, Billings, Shankland, Bowen, Brostoff, Crowley, Emerson, Fields, Gruszynski, Milroy, Ohnstad, Sargent, Sinicki, Spreitzer, Stuck, Subeck, Vining, Zamarripa, Riemer and B. Meyers
- Aug 8, 2019 · Senate
Read first time and referred to Committee on Insurance, Financial Services, Government Oversight and Courts
- Aug 22, 2019 · Senate
Commissioner of Insurance report received pursuant to s.601.423(2), Wisconsin Statutes
- Sep 10, 2019 · Senate
Representative Considine added as a cosponsor
- Sep 30, 2019 · Senate
Representative Haywood added as a cosponsor
- Dec 19, 2019 · Senate
Representative Hebl added as a cosponsor
- Apr 1, 2020 · Senate
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1
Terms on this page
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. 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
Signed on in support
Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.
Official term: Cosponsor