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Minnesota · 2025-2026 Regular Session · Bill

HF 1076: Pharmacy benefit managers and health carriers required to include lower-cost drugs in their formularies, and formulary structure and formulary tiering for each health plan required to give preference to the drug with the lowest out-of-pocket cost to the patient.

In committee Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HF 1076 is a bill introduced in the Minnesota House on February 17, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Pharmacy benefit managers and health carriers required to include lower-cost drugs in their formularies, and formulary structure and formulary tiering for each health plan required to give preference to the drug with the lowest out-of-pocket cost to the patient. Primary sponsor: Steve Elkins (Democratic-Farmer-Labor). It lists 4 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (April 2, 2025): Author added Agbaje.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic-Farmer-Labor 5

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Steve ElkinsPrimary sponsorDemocratic-Farmer-LaborHouse50B
Esther AgbajeCo-sponsorDemocratic-Farmer-LaborHouse59B
Kristin BahnerCo-sponsorDemocratic-Farmer-LaborHouse37B
Matt NorrisCo-sponsorDemocratic-Farmer-LaborHouse32B
Liz ReyerCo-sponsorDemocratic-Farmer-LaborHouse52A

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Author added Agbaje
  2. Author added Reyer
  3. Author added Bahner
  4. Author added Norris
  5. Introduction and first reading, referred to Health Finance and Policy

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source