Revises provisions relating to prescription drugs. (BDR 18-574)
Summary
AN ACT relating to prescription drugs; revising provisions concerning coverage of prescription drugs under Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program; revising provisions governing restrictions imposed on the list of preferred prescription drugs to be used for the Medicaid program; revising the criteria for selecting prescription drugs for inclusion on the list; replacing the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee with the Silver State Scripts Board; authorizing certain public and nonprofit insurers to use the preferred prescription drug list for Medicaid as their formulary; revising provisions governing the duties of pharmacy benefit managers; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2019
Committee Review
Jun 2019
Senate Passage
May 2019
Assembly Passage
Jun 2019
Signed into Law
Jun 2019
Introduced Mar 20, 2019
Signed Jun 14, 2019
Floor votes · Senate May 30, 2019 · Assembly Jun 1, 2019
How they voted
19–0
Passed · 2 other
Total votes 21
May 30, 2019
D
Democratic13
92% Yea
R
Republican8
87% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
13
Key actions
8
Committee
6
Jun 14, 2019
Signed into law
Approved by the Governor.
executive
Jun 1, 2019
Assembly · Passed
Assembly Vote: pass (41-0)
assembly
Jun 1, 2019
Lower · Passed
From committee: Do pass.
Declared an emergency measure under the Constitution.
Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 41, Nays: None, Vacant: 1.) To Senate.
In Senate. To enrollment.
lower
May 31, 2019
Committee
In Assembly.
Read first time. Referred to Committee on Ways and Means. To committee.
lower
May 30, 2019
Senate · Passed
Senate Vote: pass (19-0-2)
senate
May 30, 2019
Upper · Passed
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.
Placed on General File.
Read third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 1016.)
Reprinting dispensed with.
Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 19, Nays: None, Excused: 2.)
To printer.
From printer. To re-engrossment. Re-engrossed. Second reprint. To Assembly.
upper
Apr 23, 2019
Upper · Passed
From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. To committee.
Exemption effective.
upper
Apr 22, 2019
Upper · Passed
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.
Placed on Second Reading File.
Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 275.)
Re-referred to Committee on Finance. To printer.
upper
Mar 21, 2019
Upper · Passed
From printer. To committee.
upper
0 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
No sponsor information available.
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