Illinois House Bill 239 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: Failed on January 8 2019 - 100% progression
Action: 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Amends the Illinois Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. Requires manufacturers of brand name or generic prescription drugs to notify State purchasers, health insurers, health care service plan providers, pharmacy benefit managers, and the General Assembly of specified increases in drug prices at least 60 days before such increase and the cost of specified new prescription drugs within 3 days after approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Provides that within 30 days after such notifications, prescription drug manufacturers shall report specified information to State purchasers, health insurers, health care service plan providers, pharmacy benefit managers, and the General Assembly. Provides that failure to report such information shall result in a specified civil penalty. Requires the General Assembly to conduct an annual public hearing on aggregate trends in prescription drug pricing. Provides that if the manufacturer of a prescription drug or its agent meets or otherwise communicates with a prescriber for the purpose of marketing a drug, then the manufacturer or its agent shall disclose to the prescriber if any ingredient in the drug it is marketing is known to pose a risk of dependency in humans. Makes other changes.

DRUG MANUFACTURER-DISCLOSURES

Rep. Mary Flowers [D]	Rep. Emanuel Welch [D]	Rep. Silvana Tabares [D]	Rep. Thaddeus Jones [D]
Rep. Camille Lilly [D]	Rep. Natalie Manley [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-01-08	House	Session Sine Die
2017-03-31	House	Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee
2017-03-14	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Natalie A. Manley
2017-02-28	House	Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Emanuel Chris Welch
2017-02-23	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Camille Y. Lilly
2017-01-31	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Thaddeus Jones
2017-01-31	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Silvana Tabares
2017-01-25	House	Assigned to Health Care Licenses Committee
2017-01-11	House	Referred to Rules Committee
2017-01-11	House	First Reading
2016-12-15	House	Prefiled with Clerk by Rep. Mary E. Flowers

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
410	620	16.2	New Code	See Bill Text
410	620	16.3	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=239&GAID=14&DocTypeID=HB&SessionID=91&GA=100
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/100/HB/10000HB0239.htm