Kansas legislation · 2025-2026 Regular Session
Kansas HCR5013: Urging Congress to give state insurance regulators authority over Medicare Advantage plans
Status: Introduced, March 12, 2025
What the bill says
A concurrent resolution urging Congress to give state insurance regulators authority over Medicare Advantage plans.
From the introduced text, March 12, 2025:
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION urging Congress to give state insurance regulators authority over Medicare Advantage plans. WHEREAS, On July 30, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Medicare into law to be administered by the Federal Government; and WHEREAS, The Kansas legislature in 1981 passed a statute requiring the Kansas Insurance Commissioner to regulate and establish specific standards for Medicare supplement policies delivered or issued for delivery in the state of Kansas; and WHEREAS, The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 created Medicare Part C, known now as Medicare Advantage; and WHEREAS, The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003, also known as the Medicare Modernization Act, created Medicare Part D but also limited the authority of states to oversee Medicare Advantage plans; and WHEREAS, Since the implementation of the Medicare Modernization Act and because of the lack of state oversight, state departments of insurance, state health insurance programs and consumer advocacy organizations have reported patterns of overly aggressive, deceptive and abusive marketing and sales practices in the Medicare private plan marketplace; and WHEREAS, There have been complaints made to the state insurance departments, including Kansas, regarding misrepresentations in the marketing and sales of Medicare Advantage plans, particularly Private Fee-for-Service plans, including misrepresentations about provider networks, provider acceptance of plans, reimbursements, benefits, premiums and other features; and WHEREAS, The sale of …
Sponsors
- Sutton, Bill (R, 43) · primary sponsor
- Cindy Neighbor (D)
- Ron Bryce (R)
- Blake Carpenter (R)
- Shannon Francis (R)
- Nick Hoheisel (R)
- K. Howe, Steven (R, 71)
- Hoye, Jo Ella (D, 17)
- Susan Humphries (R)
- Long, Marty (R, 124)
- Jim Minnix (R)
- John Resman (R)
Latest actions
- : Died in Senate Committee
- : Referred to Senate Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance
- : Received and Introduced
- : Emergency Final Action - Adopted; Yea 116, Nay 2, Absent 7
- : Motion to advance to Emergency Final Action adopted
- : Committee of the Whole - Be adopted
- : Committee Report recommending resolution be adopted by House Committee on Insurance
- : Referred to House Committee on Insurance
- : Introduced
Votes
- Emergency Final Action - Adopted (March 20, 2025): 116 yea, 2 nay, passed
Common questions
- What is HCR5013?
- HCR5013 is a bill in the Kansas Legislature (2025-2026 Regular Session): Urging Congress to give state insurance regulators authority over Medicare Advantage plans.
- What does HCR5013 do?
- In its own words: A concurrent resolution urging Congress to give state insurance regulators authority over Medicare Advantage plans.
- What is the status of HCR5013?
- Introduced as of March 12, 2025. Latest action: Died in Senate Committee (April 10, 2026).
- Who sponsored HCR5013?
- Sutton, Bill (R, 43), with 11 co-sponsors.
- Where is the official record for HCR5013?
- On the Kansas Legislature website: https://kslegislature.gov/li/b2025_26/measures/hcr5013/
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