Bill Text: TX SB1137 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to applicability of certain insurance laws to pharmacy benefit managers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-04-26 - Left pending in committee [SB1137 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB1137-Introduced.html
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By: Schwertner | S.B. No. 1137 |
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relating to applicability of certain insurance laws to pharmacy | ||
benefit managers. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 4151, Insurance Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 4151.155 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 4151.155. APPLICABILITY OF CERTAIN LAWS TO PHARMACY | ||
BENEFIT MANAGERS. (a) Except as provided by this section, a | ||
pharmacy benefit manager must comply with the provisions of Chapter | ||
1369 with respect to each plan administered by the pharmacy benefit | ||
manager, regardless of whether a provision of that chapter is | ||
specifically made applicable to the plan. | ||
(b) A pharmacy benefit manager is not required to comply | ||
with a provision of Chapter 1369: | ||
(1) with respect to a plan expressly excluded from the | ||
applicability of the provision; or | ||
(2) to the extent that the commissioner determines | ||
that the nature of third-party administrators renders the provision | ||
inapplicable to pharmacy benefit managers. | ||
SECTION 2. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
of this Act, the commissioner of insurance shall repeal all rules | ||
that are inconsistent with Section 4151.155, Insurance Code, as | ||
added by this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 4151.155, Insurance Code, as added by | ||
this Act, applies only to a health benefit plan that is delivered, | ||
issued for delivery, or renewed on or after January 1, 2024. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |