Bill Text: CT SB00522 | 2015 | General Assembly | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: An Act Concerning Prescription Drugs Administered By Nursing Homes To Veterans.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-04-15 - Favorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, Senate [SB00522 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2015-SB00522-Comm_Sub.html

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General Assembly		Committee Bill No. 522
January Session, 2015		LCO No. 4252
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Referred to Committee on VETERANS' AFFAIRS
Introduced by:
(VA)

AN ACT CONCERNING PRESCRIPTION DRUGS ADMINISTERED BY NURSING HOMES TO VETERANS.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. Section 19a-521c of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from passage):

No nursing home facility, as defined in section 19a-521, or residential care home, as defined in section 19a-521, shall restrict any patient from obtaining prescription drugs through a prescription drug program or health plan offered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. [If a nursing home facility or residential care home patient obtains prescription drugs through a prescription drug program or health plan offered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, the nursing home facility or residential care home may require such prescription drugs to be dispensed and administered according to such facility's or home's policies, provided such policies conform to applicable state and federal laws.] At the request of a patient, such facility or home shall dispense and administer prescription drugs obtained through a prescription drug program or health plan operated by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs regardless of the form of the drugs' packaging. Nothing in this section shall prevent such facility or home from dispensing and administering to a patient prescription drugs that are obtained from sources other than a prescription drug program or health plan operated by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs when the patient requires such drugs before the drugs can be obtained from such drug program or health plan.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	from passage	19a-521c

VA	Joint Favorable
HS	Joint Favorable