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SB 535 Mail order pharmacy; insurer not limited to a single provider for services.
Introduced by: Stephen D. Newman | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Pharmacy benefits; freedom of choice. Authorizes accident and sickness insurers proposing to issue preferred provider policies or contracts, health maintenance organizations, corporations providing preferred provider subscription contracts, and health care plans for state employees to select a single mail order pharmacy provider as an exclusive provider of pharmacy services that are delivered to the covered person's address by mail, common carrier, or delivery service. HB 116 is identical.
FULL TEXT
- 01/13/10 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/10 10103894D pdf | impact statement
- 02/01/10 Senate: Committee substitute printed 10104512D-S1 pdf | impact statement
- 03/01/10 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB535ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/11/10 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0157) pdf
HISTORY
- 01/13/10 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/10 10103894D
- 01/13/10 Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 02/01/10 Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/01/10 Senate: Committee substitute printed 10104512D-S1
- 02/03/10 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/10 Senate: Read second time
- 02/04/10 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/04/10 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 10104512D-S1
- 02/04/10 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB535S1
- 02/08/10 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/16/10 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/16/10 House: Read first time
- 02/16/10 House: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 02/18/10 House: Reported from Commerce and Labor (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/22/10 House: Read second time
- 02/23/10 House: Read third time
- 02/23/10 House: Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/23/10 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N)
- 03/01/10 Senate: Enrolled
- 03/01/10 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB535ER)
- 03/01/10 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/02/10 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/11/10 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 157 (effective 7/1/10)
- 03/11/10 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0157)