BHB/7/9
Sponsored by Karinsel Poblete of St. Agnes Academy
This legislation was filed in the Health category
Presented as part of the YIG Volunteer 2024 conference
| 1 | BE IT ENACTED BY THE TENNESSEE YMCA YOUTH LEGISLATURE |
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| 3 | Section 1: Terms used in this act should be defined as follows: |
| 4 | a. Insulin- Natural occurring hormone, helps the body turn food into energy and manages blood |
| 5 | sugar levels. Having diabetes, your body can not make enough insulin or can’t use it properly. If |
| 6 | your pancreas doesn’t make enough insulin or your body doesn’t use insulin properly, it leads to |
| 7 | high blood sugar levels (hyperglycemia). This results in diabetes. |
| 8 | b. Insulin medicine: Human insulin is used to control blood sugar in people who have type 1 |
| 9 | diabetes or in people who have type 2 diabetes. Insulin medicine is used to take the place of |
| 10 | insulin that is normally produced by the body. It works by helping move sugar from the blood into |
| 11 | other body tissues where it is used for energy. It also stops the liver from producing more sugar. |
| 12 | The types of insulin differ only in how quickly they begin to work and how long they continue to |
| 13 | control blood sugar. |
| 14 | c. Type 1 Diabetes: Condition in which the body does not make insulin and therefore cannot |
| 15 | control the amount of sugar in the blood. Usually passed on genetically. |
| 16 | d.Type 2 Diabetes: The pancreas makes more insulin to try to get cells to respond, eventually the |
| 17 | pancreas can’t keep up, and blood sugar rises, setting the stage for prediabetes and type 2 |
| 18 | diabetes. Type 2 isn’t genetic and it usually appears because of excessive weight. |
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| 20 | Section 2): This bill will cap the cost of insulin and will lead to saving more lives/ lower the |
| 21 | expense of diabetics care. Therefore minimizing devastating complications from diabetes and |
| 22 | removing another worry from the health system. |
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| 24 | Section 3): Make insulin more affordable for patients who are not easily accessible to the price. |
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| 26 | Section 4): Patients are able to pay a cap of $35 for a monthly supply. |
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| 28 | Section 5): This act will not require funding from the state. |
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| 30 | Section 6): All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. |
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| 32 | Section 7): This bill to be enacted on January 1, 2025. |
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