VA SB933 | 2018 | Regular Session
Status
Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Passed on March 30 2018 - 100% progression
Action: 2018-03-30 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0602)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Passed on March 30 2018 - 100% progression
Action: 2018-03-30 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0602)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]
Summary
Pharmacists and pharmacy practices. Provides that no provider contract between a health carrier or its pharmacy benefits manager and a pharmacy or its contracting agent shall contain a provision (i) authorizing the carrier or its pharmacy benefits manager to charge, (ii) requiring the pharmacy or pharmacist to collect, or (iii) requiring an enrollee to make, a copayment for a covered prescription drug in an amount that exceeds the least of the applicable copayment for the prescription drug that would be payable in the absence of this section or the cash price the enrollee would pay for the prescription drug if the enrollee purchased the prescription drug without using the enrollee's health plan. The measure requires provider contracts between a health carrier or its pharmacy benefits manager and a pharmacy or its contracting agent to contain specific provisions that allow a pharmacy to (a) disclose to an enrollee information relating to the provisions of this section and the availability of a more affordable therapeutically equivalent prescription drug; (b) sell a more affordable therapeutically equivalent prescription drug to an enrollee if one is available; and (c) offer and provide direct and limited delivery services to an enrollee as an ancillary service of the pharmacy. The measure applies to provider contracts entered into, amended, extended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2019. This bill is identical to HB 1177.
Title
Health insurance; contracts with pharmacies and pharmacists, etc.
Sponsors
Roll Calls
2018-02-23 - House - House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N) (Y: 98 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-02-20 - House - House: Reported from Commerce and Labor (22-Y 0-N) (Y: 22 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-02-12 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-02-12 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-02-09 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-02-07 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (14-Y 0-N) (Y: 14 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-02-20 - House - House: Reported from Commerce and Labor (22-Y 0-N) (Y: 22 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-02-12 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-02-12 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-02-09 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-02-07 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (14-Y 0-N) (Y: 14 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-03-30 | Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0602) | |
| 2018-03-30 | Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 602 (effective 7/1/18) | |
| 2018-03-05 | Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, April 9, 2018 | |
| 2018-03-05 | Senate | Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 5, 2018 |
| 2018-03-02 | Senate | Signed by President |
| 2018-02-27 | House | Signed by Speaker |
| 2018-02-27 | Senate | Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB933ER) |
| 2018-02-27 | Senate | Enrolled |
| 2018-02-23 | House | VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N) |
| 2018-02-23 | House | Passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) |
| 2018-02-23 | House | Read third time |
| 2018-02-22 | House | Read second time |
| 2018-02-20 | House | Reported from Commerce and Labor (22-Y 0-N) |
| 2018-02-15 | House | Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor |
| 2018-02-15 | House | Read first time |
| 2018-02-15 | House | Placed on Calendar |
| 2018-02-12 | Senate | Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) |
| 2018-02-12 | Senate | Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) |
| 2018-02-12 | Senate | Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB933S1 |
| 2018-02-12 | Senate | Committee substitute agreed to 18106912D-S1 |
| 2018-02-12 | Senate | Reading of substitute waived |
| 2018-02-12 | Senate | Read second time |
| 2018-02-09 | Senate | Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) |
| 2018-02-07 | Senate | Committee substitute printed 18106912D-S1 |
| 2018-02-07 | Senate | Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (14-Y 0-N) |
| 2018-01-19 | Senate | Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor |
| 2018-01-19 | Senate | Presented and ordered printed 18104784D |
