Bill Text: HI HB65 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Prescription Drugs; Prescription Drug Benefits; Retail Community Pharmacy; Retail Pharmacy Network; Mail Order Pharmacy; Opt Out
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-07-02 - Act 226, on 6/27/2013 (Gov. Msg. No. 1329). [HB65 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2013-HB65-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 554
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2013
RE: H.B. No. 65
H.D. 1
Honorable Joseph M. Souki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Seventh State Legislature
Regular Session of 2013
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 65 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PRESCRIPTION DRUGS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
(1) Allows individual beneficiaries enrolled in any prescription drug benefits plan within the State, including the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund health benefits plan, to opt out of a plan requirement to purchase prescriptions by mail order and in the alternative purchase prescriptions drugs at a retail pharmacy;
(2) Prohibits a pharmacy benefit management company from restricting a patient's choice of pharmacy from which to receive prescription medications; and
(3) Prohibits a pharmacy benefit manager from manipulating the amounts of drug co-payments that it charges in a manner that would encourage beneficiaries to receive prescription medications through a mail-order pharmacy.
Your Committee has amended this bill by changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 65, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 65, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committees on Consumer Protection & Commerce and Judiciary.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health,
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____________________________ DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair |
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