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HJ 708 Pharmaceutical manufacturers; joint subcommittee to study feasibility of requiring gross receipts.

Introduced by: Clarence E. Phillips | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Study; gross receipts assessment on pharmaceutical manufacturers.  Establishes a joint subcommittee to study the feasibility of requiring a gross receipts assessment on pharmaceutical manufacturers.  In conducting its study, the joint subcommittee shall (i) consider a suggested assessment of 0.25 percent on all manufacturers and 0.5 percent on manufacturers of abuse-prone prescription substances, (ii) examine the need for prevention, education, and treatment of addiction to abuse-prone prescription medications in the Commonwealth, and (iii) determine if the suggested assessment, or an assessment in another amount, is a feasible method for supporting such programs.


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