Healthcare & Medicaid

Bans requiring COVID-19 vaccines for employment or services.

This bill creates a new law prohibiting employers, educational institutions, state agencies, political subdivisions, and other persons from requiring individuals to receive COVID-19 vaccinations as a condition of employment, enrollment, or to receive benefits or services. Violations are classified as Class 2 misdemeanors.

Stops health insurers from taking back payments they already made to providers.

This bill creates new regulations for health insurance carriers limiting their ability to recoup or retroactively deny previously paid claims. It establishes an 18-month time limit for health carriers to recover claim payments (with written notice required), creates exceptions for fraudulent claims and certain types of coverage (casualty, workers comp, Medicare/Medicaid, ERISA plans), establishes a 30-day advance notice requirement for retroactive denials, creates a dispute resolution process through the Division of Insurance, and prohibits carriers from adding fees, penalties, or interest to required refunds.

Prevents anyone from forcing you to get genetic-based vaccines.

This bill prohibits employers, educational institutions, and public accommodations from requiring genetic-based vaccinations (mRNA, DNA-based vaccines) or taking adverse actions against individuals who refuse them. It creates civil penalties up to $10,000 enforced by the attorney general, with exceptions for certain healthcare facilities and National Guard. The bill also amends existing public health emergency statutes to exempt individuals from genetic-based vaccination requirements during declared emergencies.

Lets diabetic students carry and use their medications at school.

This bill expands the existing law allowing students to possess and self-administer prescription medication on school property to include nasal glucagon (for diabetes emergencies) in addition to the current allowances for inhaled bronchodilators (asthma) and auto-injectable epinephrine (anaphylaxis). The bill updates definitions to include diabetes as a qualifying condition and nasal glucagon as an approved medication, while maintaining the same authorization requirements from parents and healthcare providers. It also includes liability protection language stating that schools and their employees are released from liability for injuries arising from student self-administration unless there is 'wanton or willful misconduct.'

Allows pharmacists to dispense ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine with doctor approval.

This bill authorizes pharmacists to dispense ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine to adults under written protocols developed by physicians, without patient-specific prescriptions. The bill provides civil and criminal liability protection for both physicians and pharmacists acting in good faith under these protocols, except in cases of gross negligence or willful misconduct. It also protects them from disciplinary action by their respective licensing boards.

Asks federal government to ban buying soda with food stamps.

This bill requires the Department of Social Services to submit a federal waiver request to exclude soft drinks (nonalcoholic beverages with natural or artificial sweeteners) from being purchased with SNAP benefits. The department must submit the request by September 1, 2026, implement the restriction within 6 months if approved, and resubmit annually until approved if initially denied. Milk, milk products, milk substitutes, and WIC-approved juices are excluded from the soft drink definition.

Stops insurance companies from denying coverage to organ donors.

This bill prohibits insurers from declining, limiting, or discriminating against individuals in life, disability, or long-term care insurance policies based solely on their status as living organ donors. It specifically prevents insurers from conditioning policy continuation on an individual not becoming a living organ donor and prohibits discrimination in coverage terms, pricing, or conditions based solely on living organ donor status without additional actuarial risk.

Funds a program to improve rural healthcare.

This bill appropriates $500,000,000 in federal fund expenditure authority to the Department of Health to implement a rural health transformation program authorized by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (Pub. L. No. 119-21). The appropriation expires June 30, 2031, and the bill includes an emergency clause.

supporting January as National Blood Donor Month.