2025 bills / H.B. 257
H.B. 257 Pharmacy Benefit Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
The bill sets definitions for its terms, requires the state Insurance Department commissioner to help create a form when asked, and requires health benefit plans to make sure drug rebates are spent on certain purposes. It also requires pharmacy benefit managers to offer certain options to plans that employers fund themselves.
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Official description
- defines terms
- requires the commissioner of the Insurance Department to assist in creating a form if requested
- requires a health benefit plan to ensure pharmaceutical rebates are used for certain purposes
- requires a pharmacy benefit manager to offer certain options to self-funded health benefit plans
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What members get
- An alert the day H.B. 257 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 257 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
- Your own scorecard: pick the side you favor and see how every legislator voted
Every vote
- 12 yes, 0 no, 4 absentHouse Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee: vote to change the bill · Feb 5, 2025Who voted how
- 12 yes, 0 no, 4 absentHouse Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 5, 2025Who voted how
- 72 yes, 0 no, 3 absentFinal House vote · Feb 13, 2025Who voted how
- 4 yes, 0 no, 3 absentSenate Health and Human Services Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 20, 2025Who voted how
- 23 yes, 0 no, 6 absentFinal Senate vote · Mar 6, 2025Who voted how