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2021 SPECIAL SESSION I
HB 2219 Pharmacies; freedom of choice by covered individual.
Introduced by: M. Keith Hodges | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Pharmacies; freedom of choice. Provides that no insurance carrier, corporation providing preferred provider subscription contracts, or health maintenance organization providing health care plans or its pharmacy benefits manager shall prohibit a covered individual from selecting the pharmacy of his choice to furnish specialty pharmaceutical benefits under the covered individual's policy. The bill provides that no pharmacy that meets the terms and conditions of participation shall be precluded from obtaining a direct service agreement or participating provider agreement and that any request for such agreement by a pharmacy shall be acted upon by a carrier, corporation, or organization or its pharmacy benefits manager within 60 days of receiving the request.
FULL TEXT
- 01/13/21 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102194D pdf | impact statement
- 02/02/21 House: Committee substitute printed 21103810D-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/22/21 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2219ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/18/21 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0229) pdf
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
HISTORY
- 01/13/21 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102194D
- 01/13/21 House: Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce
- 01/19/21 House: Assigned L & C sub: Subcommittee #2
- 01/28/21 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
- 02/02/21 House: Reported from Labor and Commerce with substitute (21-Y 0-N)
- 02/02/21 House: Committee substitute printed 21103810D-H1
- 02/03/21 House: Read first time
- 02/04/21 House: Read second time
- 02/04/21 House: Committee substitute agreed to 21103810D-H1
- 02/04/21 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2219H1
- 02/05/21 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/21 House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/21 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/05/21 Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 02/05/21 Senate: Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/15/21 Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/15/21 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/17/21 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/17/21 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N)
- 02/18/21 Senate: Read third time
- 02/18/21 Senate: Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/18/21 Senate: Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/18/21 Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/22/21 House: Enrolled
- 02/22/21 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2219ER)
- 02/22/21 Senate: Signed by President
- 02/24/21 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/25/21 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 25, 2021
- 02/25/21 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
- 03/18/21 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 229 (effective 7/1/21)
- 03/18/21 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0229)