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Bills from the 2025–26 session

Assembly Bill 246

Cost-sharing caps on prescription drugs and medical supplies to treat asthma under health insurance policies and plans. (FE)

Topics: Disease, Drugs, Insurance: Health

Stopped in committee

It never got a ⁠, so it never came up for a vote. The last day for votes this session was Mar 19, 2026. To try again, a lawmaker would have to start a new bill.

  1. Introduced, passed

    May 8, 2025

  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, Mar 23, 2026: “Failed to pass pursuant to ⁠”

It never got a hearing in the Assembly Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care. The committee's chair at the time was Clint Moses. Chairs decide which bills get a hearing. See every bill that never got a hearing this session.

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The same bill was also filed in the Senate as SB 251. That version died when the session ended.

What it would have done

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

This bill requires health insurance policies and plans that provide coverage of prescription drugs to cover prescription drugs and related medical supplies for the treatment of asthma. This bill provides that “related medical supplies” includes asthma inhalers and other medical supply items necessary to effectively and appropriately administer a prescription drug prescribed to treat asthma. This bill requires policies and plans to limit the amount of any enrollee cost-sharing for the coverage provided in the bill to no more than $25 per one-month supply for each prescription drug prescribed to treat asthma and to no more than $50 per month for all related medical supplies. Cost-sharing may not increase with the number of conditions for which an enrollee is treated. Further, the coverage provided in the bill may not be subject to any deductible. However, the bill provides that the limitations on cost-sharing and deductibles do not apply to the extent that the limitations would result in ineligibility for a health savings account under the federal Internal Revenue Code.

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

Who's behind it

31 representatives are its ⁠. All 31 are Democrats.

12 more lawmakers ⁠.

See all 43 names

Authors (31)

Signed on in support (12)

What it would cost

State agencies filed a . Each opens as a PDF from the Legislature.

What happened

  1. Mar 23, 2026

    The session ended, and the bill died with it.

  2. Jun 24, 2025

    1 more representative signed on in support.

  3. May 21, 2025

    A state agency sent in its estimate of the cost.

  4. May 13, 2025

    1 more representative signed on in support.

  5. May 13, 2025

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

  6. May 8, 2025

    Sent to the Assembly Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care.

  7. May 8, 2025

    Introduced in the Assembly.

See the official record, word for word
  1. May 8, 2025 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Snodgrass, Mayadev, McCarville, Anderson, Andraca, Arney, Bare, Brown, Clancy, DeSmidt, Emerson, Fitzgerald, J. Jacobson, Joers, Johnson, Madison, Miresse, Moore Omokunde, Neubauer, Ortiz-Velez, Palmeri, Phelps, Prado, Roe, Sheehan, Spaude, Stroud, Stubbs, Subeck, Tenorio and Udell; cosponsored by Senators Dassler-Alfheim, Keyeski, Drake, Hesselbein, L. Johnson, Larson, Ratcliff, Roys, Spreitzer and Wirch

  2. May 8, 2025 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care

  3. May 13, 2025 · Assembly

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

  4. May 13, 2025 · Assembly

    Representative Haywood added as a coauthor

  5. May 21, 2025 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  6. Jun 24, 2025 · Assembly

    Representative Sinicki added as a coauthor

  7. Mar 23, 2026 · 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

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Official term: LRB analysis. More in the glossary

Author

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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

Cost estimate

A state agency's estimate of what a bill would cost or save.

Official term: Fiscal estimate. 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.

More in the glossary

Public hearing

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

More in the glossary

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

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Cost estimate

A state agency's estimate of what a bill would cost or save.

Official term: Fiscal estimate

More in the glossary