File Code: Public Health
Prior Year Introduction As: SB 568/06
- Sponsored By:
-
Senators Pinsky and Britt
- Entitled:
-
Prescription Drugs - Canadian Mail Order Plan
Requiring the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene, in coordination
with the Secretary of Budget and Management, to develop a Canadian
mail order plan for the purchase and importation of prescription
drugs; requiring the Canadian mail order plan to provide prescription
drugs to specified individuals, require a contract with a pharmacy
benefits manager, incorporate patient safety features, reduce costs,
and provide financial incentives; requiring the Secretary of Health
and Mental Hygiene to prepare a report; etc.
Senate Action
- 2/2
- First Reading Finance
- 2/7
- Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/21
- Unfavorable Report by Finance
House Action
- No Action
Sponsored by:
- Senator Paul G. Pinsky, District 22
- Senator Gwendolyn Britt, District 47
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- Budget and Management, Department of
- Consumer Protection -see also- Unfair Trade Practices
- Contracts -see also- Land Installment Contracts; Procurement
- Drugs -see also- Controlled Dangerous Sub; Substance Abuse
- Health and Mental Hygiene, Department of
- International Affairs -see also- Foreign Trade
- Medical Assistance
- Patients
- Pharmacists and Pharmacies
- Postal Service
- Prices -see also- Consumer Price Index
- Public Employees -see also- State Employees
- Reports
- Retirement Systems -see also- Mandatory Retirement
- Safety -see also- Occupational Safety
- State Employees
Bill affects the following Statute:
- Health - General
- (
15-144
)
- Bill Text (Displayed in PDF Format):
First Reading,
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal and Policy Note (Displayed in PDF Format):
Available
- Amendments:
None offered