File Code: Health Care Facilities and Regulation
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 720
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegates Oaks, Costa, Davis, Elliott, Hammen, Hubbard, Kipke, Rudolph,
Benson, Bromwell, Donoghue, Kach, McDonough, Mizeur, Montgomery, Morhaim,
Nathan-Pulliam, Pena-Melnyk, Pendergrass, Reznik, Riley, V. Turner, and Weldon
- Entitled:
-
Pharmacy Benefits Managers - Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committees
Establishing requirements for a pharmacy and therapeutics committee of
a pharmacy benefits manager; requiring a pharmacy benefits manager to
ensure that its pharmacy and therapeutics committee has specified
policies and procedures; authorizing the Maryland Insurance
Commissioner to adopt regulations; making specified provisions of law
applicable to health maintenance organizations; etc.
Legislative date is used to record
history occuring in the Chambers
otherwise Calendar date is used.
House Action
- 1/31
- First Reading Health and Government Operations
- Hearing 2/7 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/18
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations
- 3/16
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/17
- Third Reading Passed (138-0)
- 3/30
- House Concur - Senate Amendments
- Third Reading Passed (139-0)
- Passed Enrolled
Senate Action
- 3/20
- First Reading Finance
- 3/21
- Hearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/31
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance
- 3/28
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/29
- Third Reading Passed with Amendments (47-0)
Action after passage in House and Senate
- 4/24
- Approved by the Governor
- - Chapter 279
Sponsored by:
- Delegate Nathaniel T. Oaks, District 41
- Delegate Joanne C. Benson, District 24
- Delegate Eric M. Bromwell, District 8
- Delegate Robert A. Costa, District 33B
- Delegate Dereck E. Davis, District 25
- Delegate John P. Donoghue, District 2C
- Delegate Donald B. Elliott, District 4B
- Delegate Peter A. Hammen, District 46
- Delegate James W. Hubbard, District 23A
- Delegate Wade Kach, District 5B
- Delegate Nicholaus R. Kipke, District 31
- Delegate Pat McDonough, District 7
- Delegate Heather R. Mizeur, District 20
- Delegate Karen S. Montgomery, District 14
- Delegate Dan K. Morhaim, District 11
- Delegate Shirley Nathan-Pulliam, District 10
- Delegate Joseline A. Pena-Melnyk, District 21
- Delegate Shane E. Pendergrass, District 13
- Delegate Kirill Reznik, District 39
- Delegate B. Daniel Riley, District 34A
- Delegate David D. Rudolph, District 34B
- Delegate Veronica Turner, District 26
- Delegate Richard B. Weldon, Jr., District 3B
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- Committees and Commissions -see also- Political Committees
- Disclosure
- Drugs -see also- Controlled Dangerous Sub; Substance Abuse
- Ethics
- Health Insurance -see also- HMOS; Managed Care Organizations
- Health Maintenance Organizations -see also- Manage Care Orgs
- Health Occupations -see also- specific health occupations
- Insurance Administration
- Penalties
- Pharmacists and Pharmacies
- Rules and Regulations
Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Health - General
- (
19-706
)
- Insurance
- (
15-1601 ,
15-1602
)
- Bill Text (Displayed in PDF Format):
First Reading,
Third Reading, Enrolled, Chapter
- Fiscal and Policy Note (Displayed in PDF Format):
Available
- Amendments (Displayed in PDF Format):
House
- Number: 946482/01 Offered on: March 19, 2008 at:
10:59 a.m. Status: Adopted
Senate
- Number: 177974/01 Offered on: April 1, 2008 at:
12:20 p.m. Status: Adopted
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
House
- March 17, 2008: Third Reading Passed (138-0)
- March 30, 2008: Third Reading Passed (139-0)
Senate
- March 29, 2008: Third Reading Passed (47-0)