Virginia House Bill 1290 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Passed on March 10 2020 - 100% progression
Action: 2020-03-10 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0219)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Pharmacy benefits managers; licensure and regulation. Provides that no person is authorized to provide pharmacy benefits management services or otherwise act as a pharmacy benefits manager without first obtaining a license from the State Corporation Commission. The measure prohibits a carrier on its own or through its contracted pharmacy benefits manager or representative of a pharmacy benefits manager from (i) causing or knowingly permitting the use of any advertisement, promotion, solicitation, representation, proposal, or offer that is untrue; (ii) charging a pharmacist or pharmacy a fee related to the adjudication of a claim other than a reasonable fee for an initial claim submission; (iii) reimbursing a pharmacy or pharmacist an amount less than the amount that the pharmacy benefits manager reimburses a pharmacy benefits manager affiliate for providing the same pharmacist services, calculated on a per-unit basis using the same generic product identifier or generic code number and reflecting all drug manufacturer's rebates, direct and indirect administrative fees, and costs and any remuneration; or (iv) penalizing or retaliating against a pharmacist or pharmacy for exercising rights provided by this measure. The measure also prohibits a carrier from (a) imposing provider accreditation standards or certification requirements inconsistent with, more stringent than, or in addition to requirements of the Virginia Board of Pharmacy or other state or federal entity; (b) including any mail order pharmacy or pharmacy benefits manager affiliate in calculating or determining network adequacy; or (c) conducting spread pricing in the Commonwealth. The measure also imposes recordkeeping and reporting requirements. The bill has a delayed effective date of October 1, 2020.

Pharmacy benefits managers; licensure and regulation.

Del. Keith Hodges [R]	Sen. Chris Head [R]	Del. Ibraheem Samirah [D]	Del. Les Adams [R]
Del. Shelly Simonds [D]

2020-02-20 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (37-Y 3-N) (Y: 37 N: 3 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-19 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-17 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor (12-Y 3-N) (Y: 12 N: 3 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-07 - House - House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) (Y: 100 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-04 - House - House: Reported from Labor and Commerce with substitute (22-Y 0-N) (Y: 22 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-01-30 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 2-N) (Y: 6 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-03-10		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0219)
2020-03-10		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 219 (effective - see bill)
2020-03-03		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 10, 2020
2020-03-03	House	Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 3, 2020
2020-02-26	Senate	Signed by President
2020-02-25	House	Signed by Speaker
2020-02-25	House	Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1290ER)
2020-02-25	House	Enrolled
2020-02-20	Senate	Passed Senate (37-Y 3-N)
2020-02-20	Senate	Read third time
2020-02-19	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
2020-02-17	Senate	Reported from Commerce and Labor (12-Y 3-N)
2020-02-10	Senate	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
2020-02-10	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed
2020-02-07	House	VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
2020-02-07	House	Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
2020-02-06	House	Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1290H1
2020-02-06	House	Committee substitute agreed to 20107170D-H1
2020-02-06	House	Passed by temporarily
2020-02-06	House	Read second time
2020-02-05	House	Read first time
2020-02-04	House	Incorporates HB1479 (Samirah)
2020-02-04	House	Incorporates HB1459 (O'Quinn)
2020-02-04	House	Incorporates HB1659 (Head)
2020-02-04	House	Incorporates HB1292 (Hodges)
2020-02-04	House	Committee substitute printed 20107170D-H1
2020-02-04	House	Reported from Labor and Commerce with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
2020-01-30	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 2-N)
2020-01-16	House	Assigned L & C sub: Subcommittee #2
2020-01-08	House	Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce
2020-01-08	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20103195D

SB251 (Same As) 2020-05-21 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1288)
HB1292 (Same As) 2020-02-04 - Incorporated by Labor and Commerce
HB1459 (Same As) 2020-02-04 - Incorporated by Labor and Commerce
HB1479 (Same As) 2020-02-04 - Incorporated by Labor and Commerce
HB1659 (Same As) 2020-02-04 - Incorporated by Labor and Commerce

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
38	2	3465	(n/a)	See Bill Text
38	2	3466	(n/a)	See Bill Text
38	2	3467	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB1290
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1290+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1290H1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1290ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0219+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+H1402V0021+HB1290
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+H14V0166+HB1290
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+HV0634+HB1290
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+S02V0166+HB1290
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV0734HB1290+HB1290
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV0769HB1290+HB1290