Illinois Senate Bill 1660 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Failed on January 9 2019 - 100% progression
Action: 2019-01-09 - Session Sine Die
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Amends the Workers' Compensation Act. Provides that no medical provider shall be reimbursed for a supply of prescriptions filled outside of a licensed pharmacy except when there exists no licensed pharmacy within 5 miles of the prescribing physician's practice. Provides that, if there exists no licensed pharmacy within 5 miles of the prescribing physician's practice, no medical provider shall be reimbursed for a prescription, the supply of which lasts for longer than 72 hours from the date of injury or 24 hours from the date of first referral to the medical service provider, whichever is greater, filled and dispensed outside of a licensed pharmacy. Provides that the limitations on filling and dispensing prescriptions do not apply if there exists a pre-arranged agreement between the medical provider and a preferred provider program regarding the filling of prescriptions outside a licensed pharmacy.

WORKER COMP-FILL PRESCRIPTIONS

Sen. Kyle McCarter [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-01-09	Senate	Session Sine Die
2017-05-05	Senate	Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments
2017-04-07	Senate	Rule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As May 5, 2017
2017-03-17	Senate	Rule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As April 7, 2017
2017-03-01	Senate	To Subcommittee on Tort Reform
2017-02-28	Senate	Assigned to Judiciary
2017-02-09	Senate	Referred to Assignments
2017-02-09	Senate	First Reading
2017-02-09	Senate	Filed with Secretary by Sen. Kyle McCarter

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
820	305	8.2	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=1660&GAID=14&DocTypeID=SB&SessionID=91&GA=100
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/100/SB/10000SB1660.htm