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Rep. Douglas introduces HB 101 asking state agencies to report rebates and savings to lawmakers
Summary
Representative Douglas presented House Bill 101, a reporting measure asking state agencies to detail savings and discounts achieved through pharmacy rebates and other measures; sponsor said the bill is intended to make savings transparent and to remove the State Health Benefit Plan from mandatory requirements
Representative Douglas told the Insurance Subcommittee he is sponsoring House Bill 101 to require state agencies to report on rebates, discounts, and savings they have achieved and to explain how those savings were realized. Douglas described the bill as a "come tell me" measure: agencies would come to the legislature and report how much they saved and how those discounts were delivered to constituents.
Douglas said he intends to remove the State Health Benefit Plan from the bill's coverage (as presented in the substitute) and to focus the reporting requirement on other agencies. "We want the other agencies to come report to show us at the state the savings that everybody made," he said. He described the measure as informational and aimed at transparency rather than an immediate coverage mandate.
No members of the public had signed up to testify on HB 101 at the hearing and the committee did not take action. Douglas described a related prior measure that had passed in a previous session in a different form but said his current focus is reporting and transparency.
The bill remains at the committee stage as a hearing only.
