Bill Text: CA AB904 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Prescription drugs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2018-02-01 - Died at Desk. [AB904 Detail]
Download: California-2017-AB904-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION
| Assembly Bill | No. 904 |
| Introduced by Assembly Member Gallagher |
February 16, 2017 |
An act relating to prescription drugs.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 904, as introduced, Gallagher.
Prescription drugs.
Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975 (Knox-Keene Act), provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law also provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law prohibits a nongrandfathered individual or group health care service plan or a health insurer that provides coverage for essential health benefits, as defined, from charging more than $250 in cost sharing for an individual, 30-day supply of a covered outpatient prescription drug, except as specified.
This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would address high prescription drug costs.
