US Congress Senate Bill 31 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-2)
Status: Introduced on January 6 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-01-06 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Pending: Senate Finance Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation Act of 2015 Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to negotiate with pharmaceutical manufacturers the prices that may be charged to Medicare part D prescription drug plan (PDP) sponsors and MedicareAdvantage (MA) organizations for covered part D drugs for part D eligible individuals who are enrolled under a PDP or under an MA-Prescription Drug plan.

Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation Act of 2015

Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D-MN]	Sen. Bernard Sanders [I-VT]	Sen. Jeanne Shaheen [D-NH]	Sen. Tim Kaine [D-VA]
Sen. Angus King [I-ME]	Sen. Richard Blumenthal [D-CT]	Sen. Al Franken [D-MN]	Sen. Sherrod Brown [D-OH]
Sen. Tammy Baldwin [D-WI]	Sen. Patrick Leahy [D-VT]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-01-06	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

HB3061 (Same As) 2015-07-20 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
HB3513 (Related) 2015-09-18 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
SB2023 (Related) 2015-09-10 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/31/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/s31/BILLS-114s31is.pdf