Illinois Senate Bill 1604 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Failed on January 9 2019 - 100% progression
Action: 2019-01-09 - Session Sine Die
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Amends the Pharmacy Practice Act. Provides that if a physician or other authorized prescriber does not prohibit drug product substitution, a pharmacist shall dispense a brand name drug product as a substitute for an unavailable nonbrand name drug product specified in the prescription. Provides that if the substitute drug product has a unit price greater than the unavailable drug product specified in the prescription, then the pharmacist shall dispense that substitute drug product at the lesser unit price of the drug product specified in the prescription. Amends the Regulatory Sunset Act to extend the repeal date for the Pharmacy Practice Act to January 1, 2020. Makes conforming changes. Effective immediately.

PHARMACY-PRESCRIPTION DRUGS

Sen. Bill Brady [R]

Sen. Linda Holmes [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-01-09	Senate	Session Sine Die
2018-11-15	Senate	Chief Sponsor Changed to Sen. William E. Brady
2017-04-07	Senate	Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments
2017-04-06	Senate	Postponed - Licensed Activities and Pensions
2017-03-29	Senate	Postponed - Licensed Activities and Pensions
2017-03-17	Senate	Rule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As April 7, 2017
2017-02-28	Senate	Assigned to Licensed Activities and Pensions
2017-02-09	Senate	Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Linda Holmes
2017-02-09	Senate	Referred to Assignments
2017-02-09	Senate	First Reading
2017-02-09	Senate	Filed with Secretary by Sen. Chris Nybo

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
225	85	25	Amended Code	Citation Text
5	80	4.28	Amended Code	Citation Text
5	80	4.30	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=1604&GAID=14&DocTypeID=SB&SessionID=91&GA=100
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/100/SB/10000SB1604.htm