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House Bill 1087 receives committee due pass after pharmacy association overview
Summary
Committee moved House Bill 1087 (pharmacy licensing language cleanup) to a "due pass" recommendation after a brief overview from the North Dakota Pharmacists Association; the motion carried on a roll call.
Mike Schwab, representing the North Dakota Pharmacists Association, told the committee the association will seek a separate bill to address enforcement and market changes but supported a wording change in House Bill 1087 that replaces "certificate" with "license." "We're going to probably just be bringing a bill forward, to address those concerns," Schwab said.
Representative Shower moved a due-pass recommendation for House Bill 1087; Representative Ruby seconded the motion. The committee took a roll-call vote and the motion passed on the committee record as carried. The chair then asked for a sponsor to carry the bill; Representative Brown agreed to sponsor the measure for the next steps.
Background: Schwab said the underlying statute is roughly 20 years old and that pharmacy-market practices—rebate aggregators, vertical integration of health carriers and PBMs, and changes in pricing—warrant additional follow-up legislation. He described the current action as limited to a verbiage change and said a fuller package will be drafted and introduced later.
Action: The committee recorded a due-pass recommendation on House Bill 1087 and will advance the measure as the committee’s recommended action to the next stage.
