HB 457 KY

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Amend KRS 304.17A-164 to prohibit insurers, pharmacy benefit managers, and other administrators of pharmacy benefits from imposing certain requirements on health plan insureds; create new sections of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to establish definitions for pharmacy-related insurance practices; require pharmacy benefit managers to establish reasonably adequate and accessible pharmacy networks; require pharmacy benefit managers to file, and the insurance commissioner to review, an annual report describing pharmacy networks; provide that information and data acquired by the Department of Insurance shall be considered proprietary and not subject to disclosure under KRS 61.870 to 61.884; establish requirements for certain contracts between a pharmacy or pharmacist and a pharmacy benefit manager; establish prohibited practices for pharmacy benefit managers; establish certain requirements for insurers and pharmacy benefit managers contracting for the provision of pharmacy benefit management services; prohibit administrators from offering any incentive or discount for use of an affiliated pharmacy benefit manager; establish a Pharmacy Benefits Management Advisory Council; create a new section of Subtitle 99 of KRS Chapter 304 to authorize the insurance commissioner to order reimbursement to persons who incurred a monetary loss as a result of a violation of provisions of legislation; amend KRS 304.9-054 to make technical changes; authorize the promulgation of administrative regulations; require pharmacy benefit managers to report certain information to the insurance commissioner; provide that certain reported information shall not be subject to disclosure under KRS 61.870 to 61.884; amend KRS 304.17A-708, 304.17A-712, and 304.17A-714 to conform; create a new section of Subtitle 17C of KRS Chapter 304 to apply provisions of legislation to limited health service benefit plans, including limited health service contracts; create a new section of Subtitle 38A of KRS Chapter 304 to apply provisions of legislation to limited health service organizations; amend 18A.225 to require the state employee health plan to comply with provisions of legislation; amend KRS 367.828 to establish certain requirements for the health discount plans that purport to offer discounts, or access to discounts, on prescription drugs; provide for staggered appointments to the Pharmacy Benefits Management Advisory Council; provide that provisions of this Act shall be severable; require the insurance commissioner to promulgate regulations to implement the Act on or before January 1, 2023; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2023.

• S. Sheldon · primary
• D. Bentley · primary
• S. Baker Republican · primary
• K. Banta Republican · primary
• L. Bechler · primary
• J. Blanton Republican · primary
• A. Bowling Republican · primary
• J. Branscum Republican · primary
• K. Bratcher · primary
• J. Bray Republican · primary
• R. Bridges Republican · primary
• J. Calloway Republican · primary
• J. Dixon · primary
• M. Dossett Republican · primary
• J. DuPlessis · primary
• D. Elliott Republican · primary
• D. Fister Republican · primary
• K. Fleming · primary
• C. Freeland Republican · primary
• C. Fugate Republican · primary
• D. Hale Republican · primary
• A. Hatton · primary
• R. Heath · primary
• S. Heavrin Republican · primary
• R. Huff · primary
• T. Huff Republican · primary
• DJ Johnson Republican · primary
• K. King Republican · primary
• W. Lawrence Republican · primary
• D. Lewis Republican · primary
• S. Lewis Republican · primary
• M. Lockett Republican · primary
• M. Marzian Democratic · primary
• C. Massey · primary
• B. McCool Republican · primary
• S. McPherson Republican · primary
• K. Moser Republican · primary
• J. Nemes Republican · primary
• R. Palumbo · primary
• J. Petrie Republican · primary
• M. Pollock · primary
• P. Pratt · primary
• M. Prunty · primary
• B. Reed · primary
• S. Riley Republican · primary
• S. Santoro · primary
• S. Sharp Republican · primary
• T. Smith Republican · primary
• A. Tackett Laferty Democratic · primary
• N. Tate Republican · primary
• W. Thomas Republican · primary
• K. Timoney · primary
• K. Upchurch Republican · primary
• R. Webber · primary
• B. Wesley Republican · primary
• S. Westrom · primary

1. Feb 7, 2022 introduced in House · lower
2. Feb 7, 2022 to Committee on Committees (H) · lower
3. Mar 9, 2022 to Health & Family Services (H) · lower
4. Mar 10, 2022 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) · lower
5. Mar 11, 2022 2nd reading, to Rules · lower
6. Mar 16, 2022 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 17, 2022 · lower
7. Mar 21, 2022 3rd reading, passed 88-3 with Committee Substitute (1) · lower
8. Mar 21, 2022 received in Senate · upper
9. Mar 21, 2022 to Committee on Committees (S) · upper
10. Mar 22, 2022 to Appropriations & Revenue (S) · upper

The published texts of this bill as it moves through the legislature. Each links to the official document on the state legislature site. Data from OpenStates.

• Current/Final · PDF
• Introduced · PDF