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Senate approves pharmacy benefit manager enforcement bill and creates enforcement fund
Summary
House Bill 15‑84, which tightens PBM oversight, creates a PBM enforcement fund and authorizes limited appropriations for initial enforcement staffing, passed the Senate 42‑5 with the emergency clause. Appropriations committee amendments limit initial spending to $1.2 million and three FTEs; a separate fund consolidates existing drug pricing fees.
MADAM PRESIDENT — The Senate passed House Bill 15‑84, a measure aimed at clarifying pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) regulation, establishing an enforcement fund and providing initial funding and staff authority for enforcement.
The bill incorporates earlier PBM reforms, updates definitions to capture rebate aggregators and certain integrated market actors, requires signed pharmacy‑PBM contracts…
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