Bill Text: CA AB29 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Pharmacy benefit managers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2018-02-01 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB29 Detail]

Download: California-2017-AB29-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 29

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Introduced by Assembly Member Nazarian

December 05, 2016

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An act relating to pharmacy benefit managers.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 29, as introduced, Nazarian. Pharmacy benefit managers.

Existing law imposes specified requirements on an audit of pharmacy services provided to beneficiaries of a health benefit plan and defines a “pharmacy benefit manager” for those purposes as a person, business, or other entity that, pursuant to a contract or under an employment relationship with a carrier, health benefit plan sponsor, or other 3rd-party payer, either directly or through an intermediary, manages the prescription drug coverage provided by the carrier, plan sponsor, or other 3rd-party payer.

This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to pharmacy benefit managers.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to pharmacy benefit managers.