Bill Title: Provides that no health care plan or health insurance policy which provides coverage for prescription drugs and for which cost-sharing, deductibles or co-insurance obligations are determined by category of prescription drugs including, but not limited to, generic drugs, preferred brand drugs and non-preferred brand drugs, shall impose cost-sharing, deductibles or co-insurance obligations for any prescription drug that exceeds the dollar amount of cost-sharing, deductibles or co-insurance obligations for any other prescription drug provided under such coverage in the category of non-preferred brand drugs or their equivalents.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Passed) 2010-10-01 - SIGNED CHAP.536 [S05000 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [HTML]

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Sponsors

Name	Type	Sponsorship	District	Financial	Encyclopedia	Biography
Senator Martin Dilan [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-018	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Thomas Duane [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-029	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Pedro Espada [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-033	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Liz Krueger [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-028	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Velmanette Montgomery [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-025	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Bill Perkins [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-030	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Antoine Thompson [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-060	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator David Valesky [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-053	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart

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