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IN HB 1037

died on adjournment

Insurance rate review.

Indiana · 2026 Regular Session (2nd Regular Session, 124th General Assembly) · lower

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Did IN HB 1037 pass?

No. IN HB 1037 died when the 2026 Regular Session (2nd Regular Session, 124th General Assembly) adjourned without final action on it. Bills that die this way are sometimes reintroduced in a later session. Latest recorded action (2025-12-01): First reading: referred to Committee on Insurance

What is IN HB 1037 about?

Provides that the insurance commissioner shall discharge the powers and duties of the commissioner's office with respect to policies of accident and sickness insurance and health maintenance organization contracts in a specified manner. Requires the commissioner to consider, before approving or disapproving a rate increase or decrease for a policy of accident and sickness insurance or a health maintenance organization contract, whether the filer's products are affordable and whether the filer has implemented effective strategies to enhance the affordability of the filer's products. Allows the commissioner to disapprove a rate increase if the rate is increased by an amount that exceeds the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: All Items Less Food and Energy percentage increase plus 1%.

Who sponsors IN HB 1037?

Victoria Garcia Wilburn is the primary sponsor of IN HB 1037.

Description

Provides that the insurance commissioner shall discharge the powers and duties of the commissioner's office with respect to policies of accident and sickness insurance and health maintenance organization contracts in a specified manner. Requires the commissioner to consider, before approving or disapproving a rate increase or decrease for a policy of accident and sickness insurance or a health maintenance organization contract, whether the filer's products are affordable and whether the filer has implemented effective strategies to enhance the affordability of the filer's products. Allows the commissioner to disapprove a rate increase if the rate is increased by an amount that exceeds the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: All Items Less Food and Energy percentage increase plus 1%.

Introduced
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Latest action
2025-12-01 — First reading: referred to Committee on Insurance
Bill type
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Victoria Garcia Wilburnauthor

Committees

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Action timeline

Newest first

  1. 2025-12-01

    First reading: referred to Committee on Insurance

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  2. 2025-12-01

    Authored by Representative Garcia Wilburn

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