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Conferees debate ERISA exemption and severability while preparing pharmacy reform conference report
Summary
A legislative conference committee discussed a strike-all conference report to reconcile pharmacy practice changes, with lawmakers divided over an ERISA exemption, a repealer clause and a possible severability fallback; drafters were asked to prepare language but no final agreement or vote occurred.
Conferees for a legislative pharmacy-practice bill discussed whether to include an ERISA exemption and how to handle repealer language as they considered a strike-all conference report, but they did not reach a final agreement or adopt a report during the meeting.
The discussion centered on differences between a conference draft sent from the Senate and proposed changes the House asked conferees to consider. One senator said the Senate would sign a conference report that is the strike-all to the House bill but asked that a set of agreed changes be included: "Senator Parks and I will sign a conference report that is the strike all to your house bill. All 3 of us are willing to consider any variation or proposal you have to amend the strike all that we sent to you," the senator said.
Why it matters: lawmaking conferees must reconcile competing provisions before the bill can go back to each chamber for…
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