Senate Amendment 2 to Senate Bill 71
150th General Assembly (2019 - 2020)
Bill Progress
Passed 6/25/19
The General Assembly has ended, the current status is the final status.
Bill Details
6/18/19
This Amendment does the following:
1. Clarifies that a pharmacy benefit manager is not violating this Act in situations where a pharmaceutical product has an extremely limited distribution and the only local pharmacy with that product is owned by the pharmacy benefit manager.
2. Revises the hospital exception to the requirement that pharmacies must be owned by a pharmacists.
3. Exempts federally qualified health centers and other non-profit community health centers from the the requirement that pharmacies must be owned by a pharmacists.