Bill Text: NY A01098 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to establishing the New York state prescription medication cost containment program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to governmental employees [A01098 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A01098-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         1098
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 5, 2011
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       Introduced by M. of A. CRESPO -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Governmental Employees
       AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to the New York state
         prescription medication cost containment program
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. The civil service law is amended by adding  a  new  section
    2  159-d to read as follows:
    3    S  159-D.  NEW  YORK  STATE  PRESCRIPTION  MEDICATION COST CONTAINMENT
    4  PROGRAM. 1. THE PRESIDENT, AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION TWO OF SECTION  TWO
    5  OF  THIS CHAPTER IS AUTHORIZED AND DIRECTED TO CREATE THE NEW YORK STATE
    6  PRESCRIPTION MEDICATION COST CONTAINMENT PROGRAM.
    7    2. SUCH PROGRAM SHALL OFFER NEW YORK STATE RESIDENTS WHO ARE  EMPLOYED
    8  IN  THE  CIVIL  SERVICE OF THE STATE OR NEW YORK STATE RESIDENTS WHO ARE
    9  RETIRED FROM STATE SERVICE AND ARE PARTICIPATING IN THE NEW  YORK  STATE
   10  HEALTH  INSURANCE PLAN (NYSHIP) AND THEIR DEPENDENTS, SEVERAL OPTIONS TO
   11  FILL MEDICAL PRESCRIPTIONS THROUGH A CANADIAN MAIL ORDER  COMPANY.  SUCH
   12  COMPANIES  SHALL  BE SELECTED THROUGH COMPETITIVE BIDDING PROCESS, TO BE
   13  DESIGNED AND IMPLEMENTED BY THE PRESIDENT, AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION TWO
   14  OF SECTION TWO OF THIS CHAPTER.  CANADIAN DRUG SUPPLIERS SHALL  INCLUDE,
   15  BUT  SHALL  NOT  BE  LIMITED  TO  ALL  MANUFACTURERS AND DISTRIBUTORS BY
   16  CANADA'S RESEARCHED BASED PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES.
   17    S 2. Nothing contained in this act shall  supersede  or  diminish  the
   18  terms of a collective bargaining agreement.
   19    S 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
   20  it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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