US Congress House Bill 4577 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on May 6 2014 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2014-05-09 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Ensuring Seniors Access to Local Pharmacies Act of 2014 - Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to a prescription drug plan that has, in its network of pharmacies, one or more pharmacies located in a health professional shortage area, in a medically underserved area, or among a medically underserved population, and that provides a reduction in coinsurance or copayments for covered part D drugs dispensed through them. Declares that such a plan shall extend to any pharmacy located in that area or among that population the option to be an in-network pharmacy with respect to such plan under terms and conditions comparable to those the plan has agreed upon with other in-network pharmacies located in the area or among that population.

Ensuring Seniors Access to Local Pharmacies Act of 2014

Rep. Morgan Griffith [R-VA]	Rep. Lou Barletta [R-PA]	Rep. Joyce Beatty [D-OH]	Rep. Sanford Bishop [D-GA]
Rep. Timothy Bishop [D-NY]	Rep. Bruce Braley [D-IA]	Rep. Cheri Bustos [D-IL]	Sen. Shelley Capito [R-WV]
Rep. Matthew Cartwright [D-PA]	Rep. Judy Chu [D-CA]	Rep. Yvette Clarke [D-NY]	Rep. Howard Coble [R-NC]
Rep. Tom Cole [R-OK]	Rep. Chris Collins [R-NY]	Rep. Doug Collins [R-GA]	Sen. Tom Cotton [R-AR]
Rep. Joe Courtney [D-CT]	Sen. Kevin Cramer [R-ND]	Rep. Eric Crawford [R-AR]	Rep. Ander Crenshaw [R-FL]
Rep. Rodney Davis [R-IL]	Rep. Peter DeFazio [D-OR]	Rep. Theodore Deutch [D-FL]	Rep. Lloyd Doggett [D-TX]
Rep. John Duncan [R-TN]	Rep. Renee Ellmers [R-NC]	Rep. Sam Farr [D-CA]	Rep. Charles Fleischmann [R-TN]
Rep. Randy Forbes [R-VA]	Rep. Jeff Fortenberry [R-NE]	Rep. Pete Gallego [D-TX]	Rep. Bob Goodlatte [R-VA]
Rep. Brett Guthrie [R-KY]	Rep. Gregg Harper [R-MS]	Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler [R-WA]	Rep. Ruben Hinojosa [D-TX]
Rep. Tim Huelskamp [R-KS]	Rep. Walter Jones [R-NC]	Rep. David Joyce [R-OH]	Rep. Mike Kelly [R-PA]
Rep. Daniel Kildee [D-MI]	Rep. Daniel Lipinski [D-IL]	Rep. David Loebsack [D-IA]	Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham [D-NM]
Rep. Sean Maloney [D-NY]	Rep. Thomas Massie [R-KY]	Rep. Vance McAllister [R-LA]	Rep. Mike McIntyre [D-NC]
Rep. David McKinley [R-WV]	Rep. Kristi Noem [R-SD]	Rep. Alan Nunnelee [R-MS]	Rep. Pete Olson [R-TX]
Rep. William Owens [D-NY]	Rep. Collin Peterson [D-MN]	Rep. David Price [D-NC]	Rep. Nick Rahall [D-WV]
Rep. Tom Reed [R-NY]	Rep. Reid Ribble [R-WI]	Rep. Tom Rice [R-SC]	Rep. David Roe [R-TN]
Rep. Mike D. Rogers [R-AL]	Rep. C.A. Ruppersberger [D-MD]	Rep. Bobby Rush [D-IL]	Rep. Tim Ryan [D-OH]
Rep. John Sarbanes [D-MD]	Rep. Janice Schakowsky [D-IL]	Rep. Austin Scott [R-GA]	Rep. David Scott [D-GA]
Rep. Bill Shuster [R-PA]	Rep. Louise Slaughter [D-NY]	Rep. Lamar Smith [R-TX]	Rep. Steve Southerland [R-FL]
Rep. Steve Stivers [R-OH]	Rep. Bennie Thompson [D-MS]	Rep. John Tierney [D-MA]	Rep. Paul Tonko [D-NY]
Rep. Timothy Walz [D-MN]	Sen. Peter Welch [D-VT]	Rep. Lynn Westmoreland [R-GA]	Rep. Ed Whitfield [R-KY]
Rep. Joe Wilson [R-SC]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-05-09	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2014-05-06	House	Referred to House Ways and Means
2014-05-06	House	Referred to House Energy and Commerce
2014-05-06	House	Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/4577/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/113/bills/hr4577/BILLS-113hr4577ih.pdf