OR HB4113 | 2024 | Regular Session
Status
Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 23-2)
Status: Passed on March 28 2024 - 100% progression
Action: 2024-03-28 - Chapter 35, (2024 Laws): Effective date January 1, 2025.
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 23-2)
Status: Passed on March 28 2024 - 100% progression
Action: 2024-03-28 - Chapter 35, (2024 Laws): Effective date January 1, 2025.
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]
Summary
The Act applies to insurers and other entities that pay for drugs for people who have insurance. The Act requires insurers and others to count toward any costs that an insured person must pay for their drugs, the amounts paid from coupons or by other third parties. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.5). Requires an insurer, a pharmacy benefit manager[, the Public Employees' Benefit Board, the Oregon Educators Benefit Board] and a health care service contractor to count payments made by or on behalf of an enrollee for the costs of certain prescription drugs when calculating the enrollee's contribution to an out-of-pocket maximum, deductible, copayment, coinsurance or other required cost-sharing for the drugs.
Title
Relating to the cost of health care.
Sponsors
| Rep. Emerson Levy [D] | Rep. Cyrus Javadi [R] | Sen. Sara Gelser Blouin [D] | Rep. Tom Andersen [D] |
| Rep. Ben Bowman [D] | Rep. Farrah Chaichi [D] | Rep. Julianne Fahey [D] | Rep. Mark Gamba [D] |
| Rep. Dacia Grayber [D] | Rep. Ken Helm [D] | Rep. Zach Hudson [D] | Rep. Jason Kropf [D] |
| Rep. John Lively [D] | Rep. Nancy Nathanson [D] | Rep. Travis Nelson [D] | Rep. Courtney Neron [D] |
| Rep. Robert Nosse [D] | Rep. Hai Pham [D] | Rep. Ricki Ruiz [D] | Rep. Nathan Sosa [D] |
| Rep. Thuy Tran [D] | Rep. Jules Walters [D] | Sen. Lew Frederick [D] | Sen. Jeffrey Golden [D] |
| Sen. Tim Knopp [R] |
Roll Calls
2024-03-05 - Senate - Senate Third Reading (Y: 30 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-02-28 - Senate - Senate Committee Do pass (Y: 5 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-02-20 - House - House Third Reading (Y: 58 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2024-02-14 - House - House Committee Do pass with amendments. (Printed A-Eng.) (Y: 11 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-02-28 - Senate - Senate Committee Do pass (Y: 5 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-02-20 - House - House Third Reading (Y: 58 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2024-02-14 - House - House Committee Do pass with amendments. (Printed A-Eng.) (Y: 11 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-28 | House | Chapter 35, (2024 Laws): Effective date January 1, 2025. |
| 2024-03-27 | House | Governor signed. |
| 2024-03-07 | Senate | President signed. |
| 2024-03-06 | House | Speaker signed. |
| 2024-03-05 | Senate | Third reading. Carried by Gelser Blouin. Passed. Ayes, 30. |
| 2024-03-04 | Senate | Carried over to 03-05 by unanimous consent. |
| 2024-03-01 | Senate | Second reading. |
| 2024-03-01 | Senate | Recommendation: Do pass the A-Eng. bill. |
| 2024-02-28 | Senate | Public Hearing and Work Session held. |
| 2024-02-21 | Senate | Referred to Health Care. |
| 2024-02-21 | Senate | First reading. Referred to President's desk. |
| 2024-02-20 | House | Third reading. Carried by Levy E. Passed. Ayes, 58; Excused, 2--Boshart Davis, Lively. |
| 2024-02-19 | House | Rules suspended. Carried over to February 20, 2024 Calendar. |
| 2024-02-16 | House | Second reading. |
| 2024-02-15 | House | Recommendation: Do pass with amendments and be printed A-Engrossed. |
| 2024-02-14 | House | Work Session held. |
| 2024-02-07 | House | Public Hearing held. |
| 2024-02-05 | House | Referred to Behavioral Health and Health Care. |
| 2024-02-05 | House | First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk. |
