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ND
North Dakota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Appropriations Apr 3rd, 2025 at 08:30 am
Appropriations
Transcript Highlights:
- House Bill 1216, expenses for prescription drugs and relating to self-insurance health care plans.
- And at the very end of the bill, Section 3, this act applies to health benefit plans that are delivered
- , issued, ..." ...this act applies to health benefit plans that are delivered, issued, executed, or renewed
- plan like a thousand... ...deductible plan.
- And it doesn't cover ERISA plans, is that correct? Okay.
Keywords:
adult residential facilities, care services, Medicaid, payment rates, elderly care, health services, North Dakota, prescription drugs, drug affordability, copay assistance, copayment accumulator, deductible accumulator, out-of-pocket maximum, health insurance, health benefit plan, self-insured health plan, self-funded plan, third-party payment, manufacturer assistance, patient assistance program
Summary:
The Appropriations Committee met with a quorum and took up three bills. House Bill 1216, dealing with prescription drug expense co-pay accumulators in health plans, was presented by Rep. Karen Carl’s, who explained it would prevent insurers from refusing to count third-party assistance toward deductibles for patients using high-cost, non-generic drugs. An amendment was offered to clarify effective dates, including a delayed January 1, 2026 start for PERS coverage. PERS testified that the amendment would align with its calendar-year benefit structure and likely reduce the fiscal note. The amendment was adopted 16-0, and the bill was set aside for further discussion later.
House Bill 1199, creating a criminal justice data-sharing system and missing persons/missing Indigenous people task force, was introduced with a committee amendment changing the Attorney General reference to the Attorney General or designee. The committee noted the bill includes a $250,000 general fund appropriation for ongoing costs. The amendment passed 16-0, and the amended bill received a do pass recommendation by a 15-1 vote, with one no vote from Senator Magrum.
House Bill 1531, appropriating $75,000 for an irrigation expansion study by the Agriculture Commissioner, was supported as a way to update older economic-impact studies on irrigation and assess opportunities for expansion. Members discussed its relationship to broader study pauses and the history of irrigation development in the state, including Garrison Diversion and remaining authorized acres. The bill passed 16-0. The committee then discussed scheduling for the coming week, noting a heavy bill load and plans for daily morning meetings before adjourning.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- TRS Retiree Health Plan, TRS CARE, where we have under... a quarter of a million lives, retired teachers
- A proposed legislation that imposes a new mandate on health benefit plan issuers or administrators in
- When a health plan doesn't cover... services, that cost is shifted to the rest of the system.
- Because most health care plans have become so comprehensive with mandates piled on top of mandates.
- CEO, Tech Association of Health Plans, and we show you testifying for the bill. Is that correct?
Keywords:
health impact analysis, cost analysis, coverage mandates, health insurance, legislative analysis, health care data, education, funding, classroom resources, teacher support, student outcomes, health benefits, provider dentists, payment reimbursement, insurance code, noncontracting, dental care, reimbursement, health benefit plans, noncontracting providers
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- benefit plan. issuers or administrators, and expenses for enrollees, health plans, and policy makers
- Uh, and administrative cost apply both to the plans and to the physician. and health care providers.
- House Bill 388 requires all health benefit plan issuers and administrators to use a uniform coordination
- as if their family members are covered by a plan.
- Abel Longoria, and I represent Hospitality Health 24-hour emergency rooms.
Keywords:
health impact analysis, cost analysis, coverage mandates, health insurance, legislative analysis, health care data, education, funding, classroom resources, teacher support, student outcomes, health benefits, provider dentists, payment reimbursement, insurance code, noncontracting, dental care, reimbursement, health benefit plans, noncontracting providers
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Commerce Finance and Policy Committee 3/5/26
Commerce Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:09:14.880><c> plans</c> Once approved by commerce, health plans Once approved by commerce, health
- plans 12 to 18 months after the health plan has paid the claim to the provider.
- </c><00:57:27.839><c> type,</c> health plan, metal level, plan type, health plan, metal level, plan type
- </c><01:02:22.240><c> plans</c> million in assessments on health plans million in assessments on health
- The health insurance companies plans.
Keywords:
HF3388, Minnesota premium security plan, reinsurance, health insurance, group health carriers, MCHA, MNsure, individual market, premium stabilization, carrier assessment, health insurance assessment, premium security plan account, state innovation waiver, high-risk pool, reinsurance payments, healthcare premiums, insurance carriers, deferral of assessment, financially impaired condition, HF400
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Commerce Finance and Policy Committee 3/4/25
Commerce Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- for</c><00:16:34.720><c> the</c> of health plans thank you for the of health plans thank you for the
- > helping</c> budget health plans are already helping budget health plans are already helping to<00:18
- </c> on health plans to fund their on health plans to fund their program<00:19:37.840><c> other</c><00
- Plans Council nonprofit Council Health Plans Council nonprofit Health<00:20:31.679><c> Plans</c><00:
- </c><01:12:30.800><c> Plan</c> um we have the Minnesota Health Plan um we have the Minnesota Health Plan
Bills:
HF837
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Health Finance and Policy Committee 3/17/25
Health Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:56:05.760><c> plans</c> the Minnesota Council of health plans the Minnesota Council of health
- <00:56:55.920><c> plan</c> health plan health plan Health<00:56:57.640><c> Plans</c><00:56:57.880><c>
- after the Health Plans 12 to 18 months after the health<00:57:05.039><c> plan</c><00:57:05.240><c> had
- </c> addition health plans pay an assessment addition health plans pay an assessment to<00:59:09.400>
- > helping</c> budget health plans are already helping budget health plans are already helping to<00:59
Keywords:
health insurance, premium security plan, federal funding, state innovation waiver, Minnesota, newborn safety, anonymity, healthcare provider, safe place, child welfare, HF499, nursing, nurse licensure, temporary permit, temporary nursing permit, Board of Nursing, endorsement licensure, reregistration, refresher course, health occupations
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- The Chair calls Blake Hudson, Director. ...for public affairs, Texas Association of Health Plans, and
- Many of these unnecessary lab tests are presented for payment to health plans, which until recently,
- These programs only alert health plans which lab claims filed are within policy coverage or not.
- plans and thus lower costs for health plans.
- My company provides lab integrity programs for over 30... ...health plans across the U.S.
Bills:
HB854, HB 1052, HB1642, HB2076, HB3042, HB3695, HB3787, HB4062, HB4092, SB213, SB493, SB896, HB5519, HB4635
Keywords:
insurance, replacement cost, homeowner's policy, renter's policy, condominium insurance, property damage, claims process, telemedicine, teledentistry, telehealth, health benefit plan, insurance coverage, out-of-state services, anxiety, pain management, contraceptive devices, women's health, medical procedures, healthcare, laboratory
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- doctor to join their practice, the new doctor must go through a lengthy credentialing process with health
- insurance plans before being able to provide in-network services to patients.
- If the provider is ultimately denied credentials, the provider's practice is required to pay the health
Bills:
HB854, HB 1052, HB1642, HB2076, HB3042, HB3695, HB3787, HB4062, HB4092, SB213, SB493, SB896, HB5519, HB4635
Keywords:
insurance, replacement cost, homeowner's policy, renter's policy, condominium insurance, property damage, claims process, telemedicine, teledentistry, telehealth, health benefit plan, insurance coverage, out-of-state services, anxiety, pain management, contraceptive devices, women's health, medical procedures, healthcare, laboratory
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Commerce Finance and Policy Committee 3/26/26
Commerce Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- Um, getting these large health insurance companies out of the health care business.
- Um, getting these large health insurance companies out of the health care business.
- Um, getting these large health insurance companies out of the health care business.
- Um, getting these large health insurance companies out of the health care business.
- So I just think that that's something that is maybe worth exploring, to allow the health plans to give
Keywords:
trusted contact, financial exploitation, elder abuse, elder financial abuse, fraud prevention, financial institution, banking, credit union, broker-dealer, account security, dormant account, consumer protection, scam, suspicious activity, protective services, law enforcement reporting, Minnesota Statutes chapter 45A, HF3388, Minnesota premium security plan, reinsurance
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- plan to cover it as a covered benefit.
- Since it would be on the health insurance plan, right?
- Ideally, we can treat this dental decay before it gets to this point with a health benefit plan that
- The Chair will call Black Hudson with the Texas Association of Health Plans. Thank you.
- Rick Hudson, Director of Public Affairs, Texas Association of Health Plans, in one of the most... persistent
Keywords:
autism, health insurance, coverage, medical treatment, health benefit plan, HIV prevention, prescription drug, prior authorization, health benefits, insurance coverage, insurance, contract termination, property and casualty, insurance agents, discrimination, appraiser, umpire, licensing requirements, continuing education, admin penalties
TX
Texas 89th Regular
S/C on Disease Prevention & Women's & Children's Health Mar 27th, 2025
S/C on Disease Prevention & Women's & Children's Health
Transcript Highlights:
- It reports on a statewide health plan and submits it to state leadership every six years.
- This council... ...recommended the creation of a long-range plan to promote health literacy, and it's
- included in the 2023-2028 health state plan.
- There was actually health literacy quite comprehensively addressed in the 2018-2020 state health plan
- The coordinating council and its efforts to address health literacy as a part of the state health plan
Keywords:
Medicaid, child health, express lane option, income verification, supplemental nutrition assistance, telepharmacy, healthcare access, remote dispensing, rural clinics, pharmacy regulations, health literacy, state health plan, health care, patient outcomes, public health, economic impact, healthcare, breast cancer, cervical cancer, insurance eligibility
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- services program and develop an Alzheimer's disease state plan.
- , and evaluating stakeholder engagement, plan implementation, review, and updates.
- to DHS for the dementia services program and the implementation of the state plan.
- The first Alzheimer's state plan was published in 2016.
- Now we can really focus on the projects within the plan, like supporting caregivers.
Keywords:
cardiac arrest, defibrillators, school safety, emergency response, CPR training, Arizona education funding, Alzheimer's, dementia, memory care, cognitive decline, brain health, caregiver support, long-term care, in-home care, public health, health services, state plan, dementia services program, Arizona Department of Health Services, aging
NV
Nevada 2025 Regular Session
Assembly Committee on Commerce and Labor Jun 1st, 2025 at 11:30 pm
Commerce and Labor
Keywords:
brew pub, alcoholic beverages, liquor store, licensure, regulation, Department of Taxation, fertility preservation, breast cancer, ovarian cancer, oncology, reproductive medicine, infertility, cancer treatment, egg freezing, embryo freezing, oocyte cryopreservation, sperm banking, assisted reproductive technology, health insurance mandate, Medicaid
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Budget Review Subcommittee on Heath and Family Service. (6-3-26)
Transcript Highlights:
- systems and the health plans in this Commonwealth, our goal right now is to work with those teams to
- :23:43.919><c> in</c><00:23:44.159><c> the</c> and the the health plans in this in the and the the health
- It cannot be a group of just hospital providers or a group of just health plans.
- It cannot be a group of just hospital providers or a group of just health plans.
- </c> testify in the rural health testify in the rural health transformation<00:30:19.520><c> plan.
Keywords:
Meeting Start 00:00:00
Attendance Roll Call 00:00:20
CRISP Shared Services 00:01:39
Rural Health Transformation Plan 00:30:55, 958, all
Summary:
The Budget Review Subcommittee on Health and Family Services opened its first meeting of the 2026 interim session, took roll, and moved directly into presentations. The main presentation was from Ryan Bramble of Crisp Shared Services, who described the organization’s health information exchange and health data utility model in Kentucky and other states. He emphasized that Crisp is a nonprofit, that data ownership remains with providers, and that governance is local. He also outlined the technical infrastructure, including a master patient index, cloud-based data lake, support for modern standards like FHIR and USCDI as well as older formats, and data quality tools used to normalize and standardize information. Bramble said the model is intended to reduce duplication, lower costs, and support rural providers and future use cases such as reporting, analytics, and AI-enabled decision support.
Members asked how the state can ensure the data is actually used and who should drive priorities for health care improvement. Bramble said Crisp can provide tools, expertise, and examples from other states, but local teams such as KHI and state stakeholders must tailor and lead utilization efforts. In response to questions about ownership and coordination, he stressed that successful HIE governance requires a multistakeholder body that includes hospitals, health plans, government, and other interests, with a unified approach rather than multiple competing directives. He also said the Commonwealth has an opportunity to convene those stakeholders and set clear priorities.
A senator raised concerns that responsibility for Medicaid and broader health policy has become fragmented and suggested a stronger central role for the state, possibly through the Department of Public Health, to coordinate health priorities. Bramble agreed that a single convening authority and multistakeholder governance are important, and noted that local governance should determine what data is shared and how it is used. No votes or formal actions were taken during this portion of the meeting. After Bramble’s presentation and questions, the committee was told that Secretary Stack from the cabinet would testify next on the rural health transformation plan.
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Senate Committee on Health and Human Services Mar 18th, 2025
Health & Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- Senate Bill 4- Senate Bill 493 prohibits health insurance plans and PBMs from preventing pharmacies from
- This provision ensures that the contracts between PBMs, health insurance plans, and pharmacy agencies
- There is an error in the results of the delay of notification of the health plan.
- Our health plans have tried to waive that on their own, but are not allowed to because of statute.
- They work with employers to help create. health care plans for their employees that meet the needs of
Keywords:
immunization, written informed consent, civil liability, health care provider, vaccine compensation, administrative penalty, health care, licensing, complaint procedure, disciplinary action, law enforcement, pharmacy benefit manager, PBM, gag clause, prescription drug pricing, out-of-pocket cost, cash price, pharmacist, pharmacy, prescription drug benefit
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Interim Joint Committee on State Government (7-29-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- Three of which we've held for a number of years: the PPO, the consumer-driven health plan, the basic
- And then, new for 2025, we also offer a high-deductible health plan.
- plan, uh the consumer-driven health plan, uh the basic<00:53:04.319><c> version</c><00:53:04.559><c>
- </c> also offer a high deductible health also offer a high deductible health plan.<00:53:15.599><c> Uh
- and claims data to strategize the most effective ways to have a positive health plan.
Keywords:
Voter List Maintenance - State Board of Elections -- 05:38
State Employee Health Insurance Plan – 44:18
Discussion of HB 622 (2025 RS) – 01:01:43, 958, all
Summary:
The Interim Committee on State Government met on July 29, established a quorum, approved the June 24 minutes unanimously, and heard an update from the State Board of Elections on voter list maintenance. Taylor Brown, the board’s general counsel, explained the federal NVRA requirements and Kentucky’s statutory process for maintaining voter rolls, including use of USPS change-of-address data, ERIC reports, and agreements with non-ERIC states. He said Kentucky has entered or discussed agreements with several states, and that the board sends postcards to voters believed to have moved; if a voter does not respond to an 8D2 postcard and does not vote over two federal election cycles, the registration may be removed. He also described other removal categories such as death, felony conviction, incompetency, duplicate registrations, and self-requested cancellations.
Brown reported that between July 1, 2024, and June 30, 2025, the board removed 284,381 registrations from the rolls, including 42,675 for death, 5,940 for felony conviction, 5,527 for registration in another state, 578 for incompetency, 223 based on jury questionnaires indicating non-citizenship, 746 self-removals, and 3,381 duplicates, along with 225,311 removals through the address-maintenance program. He said Kentucky’s total registrations decreased by roughly 169,000 over the year and are now below the Census Bureau’s estimate of the state’s voting-age population. Brown emphasized that receiving a postcard does not mean a voter has been purged and that failure to vote alone does not trigger removal.
Members asked about the 223 non-citizen-related removals, the availability and effectiveness of alternatives to ERIC, the partisan criticism of ERIC, and how duplicate registrations are identified. Brown said the non-citizen jury questionnaire cases had been referred to the Attorney General for further review, that Kentucky currently has no organized alternative to ERIC but is pursuing reciprocal agreements with states such as Florida, and that ERIC recently changed bylaws to remove a postcard requirement that had been costly for member states. On duplicates, he said the board uses multiple data points, not just name and address, and noted that fuller Social Security data could improve accuracy. Committee leaders praised the board’s work and said they wanted to meet before session to discuss possible statutory changes to improve voter list maintenance.
AL
Transcript Highlights:
- HB425 is a collaborative effort with the Alabama Department of Mental Health, County Mental Health Associations
- These are our community-based mental health providers. It's the boards who oversee them.
Keywords:
speech-language pathology, licensure, clinical supervision, educational qualifications, healthcare assistant, mental health, regional authority, board of directors, local governance, public health, sudden cardiac arrest, automated external defibrillator, AED, school safety, emergency response, cardiac emergency response plan, training, athletic events, first aid, 923
TX
Bills:
HB 44, HB 2200, HB 1612, HB 2747, HB 2038, HB 3717, HB 1431, HB 3800, HB 3801, HB 3560, HB 3246
Keywords:
cremation, natural organic reduction, health and safety, environmental concerns, funeral services, medical licensing, physician graduates, healthcare access, occupational licensing, foreign medical graduates, cell-cultured protein, food safety, human consumption, agriculture, food labeling, healthcare workforce, advisory board, Texas Workforce Commission, resource guide, education collaboration
AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama Senate Healthcare Committee Apr 30th, 2025 at 09:30 am
Healthcare
Transcript Highlights:
- HB425 is a collaborative effort with the Alabama Department of Mental Health, County Mental Health Association
- These are our community-based mental health providers. It's the boards who oversee them.
Keywords:
speech-language pathology, licensure, clinical supervision, educational qualifications, healthcare assistant, mental health, regional authority, board of directors, local governance, public health, sudden cardiac arrest, automated external defibrillator, AED, school safety, emergency response, cardiac emergency response plan, training, athletic events, first aid, sessions
TX
Bills:
HB345, HB721, HB2580, SB815, HB3057, HB4603, HB3233, SB495, HB3863, HB3914, HB4570, HB5099, HB5173, SB458
Keywords:
insurance, appraisal process, disputed losses, residential property, policyholder rights, insurer obligations, natural disasters, appraisal expenses, umpire selection, policyholder, insurer, umpire, claims management, health care, cost disclosure, benefit plan, administrators, traumatic brain injury, health benefit plans, insurance coverage