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Read. Follow. Verify.New Jersey bill requires health insurance exchange subsidies for low-income households with a type 1 diabetes diagnosis
Last action · October 29, 2026: Introduced, Referred to Assembly Financial Institutions and Insurance CommitteeSponsor: Heather Simmons
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What This Bill Would Do
This bill directs the to provide additional health insurance exchange subsidies for low-income households with an income below 400 percent of the that include a member living with type 1 diabetes.
Qualifying lower-income households in New Jersey carrying a type 1 diabetes diagnosis become eligible for dedicated financial assistance to offset individual health insurance exchange purchase costs.
Who It Would Affect
Groups the bill's text would affect if enacted, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
households with an income below 400 percent of the federal poverty level where a member is living with type 1 diabetes
Eligible households receive an additional subsidy for purchasing health insurance on the individual exchange.
health and dental insurance carriers
Carriers pay assessments into the Health Insurance Affordability Fund, which may be suspended if statutory fund requirements are not met in an annual appropriations act.
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
Currently in committee. The next step in the legislative lifecycle is Floor Vote.
Procedural history
1 action- Oct 29, 2026HouseIntroducedIntroduced, Referred to Assembly Financial Institutions and Insurance Committee
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