Bill Text: FL H0253 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: State Employees' Prescription Drug Program

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Failed) 2012-03-09 - Died in Health and Human Services Committee, companion bill(s) passed, see HB 5003 (Ch. [H0253 Detail]

Download: Florida-2012-H0253-Introduced.html

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HB 253

1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to the state employees' prescription
3	drug program; amending s. 110.12315, F.S.; requiring
4	the Department of Management Services to authorize
5	certain pharmacies to dispense 90-day maintenance
6	prescription medication to certain patients;
7	specifying a dispensing fee for a 90-day prescription
8	supply; providing an effective date.
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10	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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12	Section 1.  Subsections (3) through (7) of section
13	110.12315, Florida Statutes, are renumbered as subsections (4)
14	through (8), respectively, and a new subsection (3) is added to
15	that section to read:
16	110.12315  Prescription drug program.-The state employees'
17	prescription drug program is established. This program shall be
18	administered by the Department of Management Services, according
19	to the terms and conditions of the plan as established by the
20	relevant provisions of the annual General Appropriations Act and
21	implementing legislation, subject to the following conditions:
22	(3)  The Department of Management Services shall authorize
23	any retail pharmacy licensed in this state and participating in
24	the program to dispense a 90-day maintenance prescription
25	medication to a program member, subscriber, or covered dependent
26	with a chronic disease, including, but not limited to, heart
27	disease, diabetes, HIV/AIDS, end-stage renal disease, or cancer.
28	The dispensing fee for a 90-day supply shall be 1.5 times the
29	amount paid for a 30-day supply.
30	Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2012.

CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions.