File Code: Insurance - Health
Prior Year Introduction As: HB 953/05 - HGO
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegates Gilleland, Costa, Donoghue, Hubbard, and Kullen
- Entitled:
-
Prescription Drugs - Preferred Drug List - Price
Requiring insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health
maintenance organizations to allow individuals entitled to health care
benefits for prescription drugs or devices under specified policies or
contracts to purchase a preferred brand-name drug at the price or
co-payment required for a generic drug, if an equivalent generic drug
is not available.
House Action
- 2/8
- First Reading Health and Government Operations
- 2/15
- Hearing 3/9 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/24
- Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations
Senate Action
- No Action
Sponsored by:
- Delegate Terry R. Gilleland, Jr., District 32
- Delegate Robert A. Costa, District 33B
- Delegate John P. Donoghue, District 2C
- Delegate James W. Hubbard, District 23A
- Delegate Sue Kullen, District 27B
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- DRUGS -see also- CONTROLLED DANGEROUS SUB; SUBSTANCE ABUSE
- HEALTH INSURANCE -see also- HMOS; MANAGED CARE ORGANIZATIONS
- HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS -see also- MAN CARE ORGS
- PHARMACISTS AND PHARMACIES
- PRICES -see also- CONSUMER PRICE INDEX
Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Health - General
- (
19-706
)
- Insurance
- (
15-805.1
)
- Bill Text (Displayed in PDF Format):
First Reading,
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note (Displayed in PDF Format):
Available
- Amendments:
None offered