Virginia Senate Bill 331 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 8 2016 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2016-02-01 - Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor with letter (15-Y 0-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Step therapy; psychiatric medicines. Prohibits a health insurer or other carrier from using step therapy in a manner that results in a denial of or delay in coverage for any psychiatric medication under a health insurance policy or plan. The measure applies only to health insurance policies or plans that provide coverage for prescription drugs on an outpatient basis. If the health benefit plan utilizes a closed drug formulary, the prohibition applies only to psychiatric medications on the formulary.

Accident and sickness insurance; step therapy for psychiatric medications.

Sen. Bill DeSteph [R]

2016-02-01 - Senate - Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor with letter (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-02-01	Senate	Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor with letter (15-Y 0-N)
2016-01-08	Senate	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
2016-01-08	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16101951D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
38	2	3407.13:3	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+sum+SB331
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+SB331+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+S02V0037+SB0331