CT SB00019 | 2021 | General Assembly
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 8 2021 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2021-01-08 - Referred to Joint Committee on Insurance and Real Estate
Pending: Joint Insurance and Real Estate Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]
Status: Introduced on January 8 2021 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2021-01-08 - Referred to Joint Committee on Insurance and Real Estate
Pending: Joint Insurance and Real Estate Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]
Summary
To prohibit health insurance policies providing coverage for outpatient prescription drugs, and mental health care benefits provided under state law, with state funds or to state employees, from: (1) Requiring a prescribing health care provider to prescribe an outpatient psychotropic drug in a quantity that the provider deems clinically inappropriate; or (2) imposing increased cost-sharing for less than a ninety-day supply of a covered outpatient psychotropic drug if a prescribing health care provider deems a ninety-day supply of such drug to be clinically inappropriate.
Title
An Act Concerning Health Coverage For Outpatient Psychotropic Drugs.
Sponsors
| Sen. Saud Anwar [D] |
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-08 | Senate | Referred to Joint Committee on Insurance and Real Estate |
Connecticut State Sources
| Type | Source |
|---|---|
| Summary | https://www.cga.ct.gov/asp/cgabillstatus/cgabillstatus.asp?selBillType=Bill&bill_num=SB00019&which_year=2021 |
| Text | https://www.cga.ct.gov/2021/TOB/S/PDF/2021SB-00019-R00-SB.PDF |
