Diabetes Prevention and Obesity Treatment Act

What it does

The legislature's own summary of the bill, or its official long title.

Creating the “Diabetes Prevention and Obesity Treatment Act”; beginning on a specified date, requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to provide Medicaid coverage for diabetes prevention programs if the Medicaid recipient meets specified criteria; requiring the agency to provide Medicaid coverage for certain treatments for obesity; authorizing the agency to seek federal approval through a state plan amendment or Medicaid waiver if necessary to implement specified provisions, etc.

Every action

5 steps, oldest first, as the legislature records them.

1. Feb 11, 2025SenateFiled
2. Feb 20, 2025CommitteeReferred to Health Policy; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Fiscal Policy · Senate Health Policy
3. Mar 4, 2025SenateIntroduced
4. May 3, 2025SenateIndefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
5. Jun 16, 2025CommitteeDied in Health Policy · Senate Health Policy

Roll calls

No recorded votes on this bill yet.

Sponsors

The member who introduced it.

• Ana Maria RodriguezR Primary sponsor · District 40