US Congress House Bill 793 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 62-41)
Status: Introduced on February 5 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-02-27 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Ensuring Seniors Access to Local Pharmacies Act of 2015 Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct any prescription drug plan that has in its network one or more pharmacies located in a health professional shortage area, in a medically underserved area, or among a medically underserved population, and that provides a reduction in coinsurance or copayments for covered part D drugs, to extend to any pharmacy located in that area, or among that population, the option to be an in-network pharmacy under terms and conditions comparable to those the plan has agreed upon with other in-network pharmacies located in the area or among that population.

Ensuring Seniors Access to Local Pharmacies Act of 2015

Rep. Morgan Griffith [R-VA]	Sen. Peter Welch [D-VT]	Rep. David McKinley [R-WV]	Rep. Thomas Massie [R-KY]
Rep. Walter Jones [R-NC]	Rep. David Roe [R-TN]	Rep. Charles Fleischmann [R-TN]	Rep. Tim Huelskamp [R-KS]
Rep. Rod Blum [R-IA]	Rep. Randy Forbes [R-VA]	Rep. David Loebsack [D-IA]	Rep. Doug Collins [R-GA]
Rep. Collin Peterson [D-MN]	Rep. Austin Scott [R-GA]	Rep. Timothy Walz [D-MN]	Rep. Earl Carter [R-GA]
Rep. Robert Hurt [R-VA]	Rep. Jeff Fortenberry [R-NE]	Rep. Lou Barletta [R-PA]	Rep. Mike Coffman [R-CO]
Rep. Tim Ryan [D-OH]	Rep. Lynn Westmoreland [R-GA]	Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler [R-WA]	Rep. Bob Goodlatte [R-VA]
Rep. Peter DeFazio [D-OR]	Rep. Eric Crawford [R-AR]	Rep. John Sarbanes [D-MD]	Rep. Barbara Comstock [R-VA]
Rep. Daniel Kildee [D-MI]	Rep. Rick Allen [R-GA]	Rep. Tom Marino [R-PA]	Rep. Andy Harris [R-MD]
Rep. Steven Palazzo [R-MS]	Rep. Mark Amodei [R-NV]	Rep. Reid Ribble [R-WI]	Rep. Bill Huizenga [R-MI]
Rep. Daniel Lipinski [D-IL]	Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick [D-AZ]	Rep. Richard Nolan [D-MN]	Rep. John Duncan [R-TN]
Rep. Joyce Beatty [D-OH]	Rep. Mike D. Rogers [R-AL]	Rep. Stevan Pearce [R-NM]	Rep. Paul Gosar [R-AZ]
Rep. David Young [R-IA]	Rep. Gregg Harper [R-MS]	Rep. Theodore Deutch [D-FL]	Rep. Bennie Thompson [D-MS]
Rep. Ed Whitfield [R-KY]	Rep. Jim Bridenstine [R-OK]	Rep. Doug Lamborn [R-CO]	Rep. Sean Maloney [D-NY]
Rep. Bruce Westerman [R-AR]	Rep. Ralph Abraham [R-LA]	Rep. Evan Jenkins [R-WV]	Rep. Steve King [R-IA]
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers [R-WA]	Rep. Janice Schakowsky [D-IL]	Rep. Brett Guthrie [R-KY]	Rep. Judy Chu [D-CA]
Rep. Jody Hice [R-GA]	Rep. Yvette Clarke [D-NY]	Rep. Sanford Bishop [D-GA]	Rep. Roger Williams [R-TX]
Rep. Harold Rogers [R-KY]	Rep. Ruben Hinojosa [D-TX]	Rep. David Scott [D-GA]	Rep. Marcy Kaptur [D-OH]
Rep. C.A. Ruppersberger [D-MD]	Rep. Bobby Rush [D-IL]	Rep. Sam Farr [D-CA]	Rep. Paul Tonko [D-NY]
Rep. Louise Slaughter [D-NY]	Rep. Terri Sewell [D-AL]	Rep. Eliot Engel [D-NY]	Rep. Michael Conaway [R-TX]
Rep. David Joyce [R-OH]	Sen. Kevin Cramer [R-ND]	Rep. Cheri Bustos [D-IL]	Rep. Rodney Davis [R-IL]
Rep. David Price [D-NC]	Rep. Brian Babin [R-TX]	Rep. Pete Olson [R-TX]	Rep. Charles Boustany [R-LA]
Rep. James Langevin [D-RI]	Rep. Rob Bishop [R-UT]	Rep. Pete Sessions [R-TX]	Rep. Blake Farenthold [R-TX]
Rep. Elise Stefanik [R-NY]	Rep. Tom Reed [R-NY]	Rep. Mark Pocan [D-WI]	Rep. Eric Swalwell [D-CA]
Rep. Eleanor Norton [D-DC]	Rep. Steve Cohen [D-TN]	Rep. John Conyers [D-MI]	Rep. Raul Ruiz [D-CA]
Rep. Elijah Cummings [D-MD]	Rep. Robert Wittman [R-VA]	Rep. Christopher Gibson [R-NY]	Rep. Tom Graves [R-GA]
Rep. Charles Dent [R-PA]	Rep. Lloyd Doggett [D-TX]	Rep. Lloyd Doggett [D-TX]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-02-27	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2015-02-06	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2015-02-05	House	Referred to House Ways and Means
2015-02-05	House	Referred to House Energy and Commerce
2015-02-05	House	Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
2015-02-05	House	Introduced in House

SB1190 (Same As) 2015-05-05 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/793/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr793/BILLS-114hr793ih.pdf