Kansas 2025-2026 Regular Session

Kansas House Bill HB2684

Introduced
2/4/26  

Caption

Providing price limits and other requirements for health benefits covering prescription insulin drugs and establishing the insulin affordability program for the uninsured.

Impact

If enacted, HB 2684 will have significant implications for state laws regarding healthcare and pharmaceutical pricing, particularly for individuals with diabetes who struggle to afford their insulin prescriptions. The establishment of price limits and an affordability program is expected to reduce the out-of-pocket expenses for uninsured individuals, potentially improving their health outcomes and overall quality of life. This legislation may also prompt private insurers to adjust their coverage and pricing structures for insulin, aligning them with the new state mandates.

Summary

House Bill 2684 aims to address the affordability of prescription insulin drugs by establishing price limits and requirements for health benefits that cover these medications. The bill is designed to create an insulin affordability program specifically for uninsured individuals, ensuring that those who lack adequate healthcare coverage can still access essential diabetes treatments without facing prohibitive costs. By implementing price caps on insulin, the legislation seeks to mitigate the financial burden that rising drug prices have placed on patients and their families.

Contention

There are notable points of contention surrounding HB 2684, particularly regarding the implementation and sourcing of funds for the proposed affordability program. Critics may argue that setting price limits could negatively affect pharmaceutical innovation and availability of insulin products. Conversely, proponents maintain that the current pricing structure is unsustainable and unjust, advocating for immediate action to protect vulnerable populations. The debate around this bill highlights the larger issue of drug pricing reform and the need for systemic changes within the healthcare system.

Companion Bills

No companion bills found.

Previously Filed As

KS HB2002

Expanding medical assistance eligibility and enacting the cutting healthcare costs for all Kansans act.

KS SB2

Eliminating the income limit to qualify for the subtraction modification exempting social security benefits, increasing the income tax credit amount for household and dependent care expenses, establishing the veterans' valor property tax relief act providing for an income tax credit or refund for eligible individuals, citing the increased property tax homestead refund claim section as the homeowners' property tax freeze program, decreasing the normal privilege tax rate, increasing the extent of property tax exemption for residential property from the statewide school levy, decreasing the rate of ad valorem tax imposed by a school district; providing for certain transfers to the state school district finance fund, reducing the state rate of tax on sales of food and food ingredients and modifying the percent credited to the state highway fund from revenue collected.

KS HB2003

Establishing the veterans' valor property tax relief act providing for an income tax credit or refund for eligible individuals, modifying the definition of household income and increasing the appraised value threshold for eligibility of seniors and disabled veterans related to increased property tax claims and citing the section as the homeowners' property tax freeze program, providing property tax exemptions for certain personal property including watercraft, marine equipment, off-road vehicles, motorized bicycles and certain trailers, excluding internal revenue code section 1031 exchange transactions as indicators of fair market value, providing for certain exclusions from the prohibition of paying taxes under protest after a valuation notice appeal and providing four prior years' values on the annual valuation notice.

KS SB6

Providing a sales tax exemption for sales of electricity to residential premises by municipally owned or operated utilities.

KS SB1

Modifying income tax rates for individuals, exempting all social security benefits from Kansas income tax, increasing the Kansas standard deduction and the Kansas personal exemption, increasing the income tax credit amount for household and dependent care expenses, decreasing the privilege tax normal tax, excluding internal revenue code section 1031 exchange transactions as indicators of fair market value for property tax valuation purposes, increasing the extent of property tax exemption for residential property from the statewide school levy, providing for certain transfers to the state school district finance fund and abolishing the local ad valorem tax reduction fund and the county and city revenue sharing fund.

KS SB8

Exempting the sale of firearms, firearms accessories, ammunition, firearm safes and firearm safety devices from the retatilers' sales tax.

KS HB2001

Authorizing the secretary of commerce to enter into agreements with major professional sports franchises to establish STAR bond projects for a major professional sports complex, providing for additional revenue sources, expanding the powers and discretion of the secretary and making other changes to the STAR bonds financing act to facilitate such projects, limiting the secretary’s authority to approve such projects to one year unless extended by the legislative coordinating council, authorizing the Kansas development finance authority to issue STAR bonds for such projects, transferring funds under certain circumstances from the state gaming revenues fund to the attracting professional sports to Kansas fund for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, and, if approved by the legislative coordinating council, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2026.

KS SB7

Authorizing federally licensed firearm dealers, in addition to county sheriffs, to receive applications for concealed carry licenses and forward such applications to the attorney general, prohibiting sheriffs from assessing any fee related to application services and allowing dealers to assess a fee related to application services not to exceed $20.

KS HCR5002

Providing for the adjournment sine die of the 2024 special session of the Legislature.

KS SR1701

Providing for the organization of the Senate for the 2024 special session of the Legislature.

Similar Bills

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