Del. Chris Runion

Celebrating the life of Karen Harrison Jones.

Commending the Middle River Church of the Brethren.

Celebrating the life of Douglas W. Shifflett,Sr.

Celebrating the life of Karen Harrison Jones.

Commending the Weyers Cave Ruritan Club.

Commending Ed Clark.

Human trafficking investigators; licensing bythe Department of Criminal Justice Services. Authorizes the Departmentof Criminal Justice Services to register and issue licenses for humantrafficking investigators. The bill provides that a human traffickinginvestigator is a private investigator who is GSA compliant and engagesin the business of, or accepts employment to make, investigationsto obtain information on sex trafficking or severe forms of traffickingas defined in the federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000and in the federal Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015.

Drinking water; maximum contaminant levels;water treatment systems; Rural Water Supply Program and Fund established. Directs the State Board of Health to adopt regulations to utilizepoint-of-use or point-of-entry drinking water treatment or filtrationto remove or significantly reduce concentrations of contaminantsof concern that meet or exceed any maximum contaminant level orhealth advisory for the same contaminant adopted by the U.S. EnvironmentalProtection Agency. The bill also establishes the Rural Water SupplyProgram and Fund to allow the Department of Health's Office of DrinkingWater to test and treat contaminated drinking water for individualson private wells and small rural public water systems.

Health insurance; cost-sharing; pharmacy benefits managers' compensation and duties: civil penalty. Amends provisions related to rebates provided by carriers and health benefit plans to health plan enrollees by defining "defined cost-sharing," "price protection rebates," and "pharmacy benefits management services." The bill requires that an enrollee's defined cost-sharing for each prescription drug be calculated at the point of sale based on a price that is reduced by an amount equal to at least 80 percent of all rebates received or expected to be received in connection with the dispensing or administration of the prescription drug.The bill prohibits a pharmacy benefits manager from deriving income from pharmacy benefits management services provided to a carrier or health benefit plan except for income derived from a pharmacy benefits management fee. The bill requires the amount of any pharmacy benefits management fees to be set forth in the agreement between the pharmacy benefits manager and the carrier or health benefit plan and that such fee not be based on the acquisition cost or any other price metric of a drug; the amount of savings, rebates, or other fees charged, realized, or collected by or generated based on the activity of the pharmacy benefits manager; or the amount of premiums, deductibles, or other cost-sharing or fees charged, realized, or collected by the pharmacy benefits manager from enrollees or other persons on behalf of an enrollee. The bill requires a pharmacy benefits manager to annually certify to the State Corporation Commission that it has met certain requirements.The bill establishes a pharmacy benefits manager duty, which includes the duties of care and good faith and fair dealing, owed to any enrollee, provider, or health benefit plan that receives pharmacy benefits management services from the pharmacy benefits manager or that furnishes, covers, receives, or is administered a unit of a prescription drug for which the pharmacy benefits manager has provided pharmacy benefits management services. The bill requires the Commission to define by regulation the scope of such duty and provides for a private cause of action for any person aggrieved by the breach of such duty.

Department of Criminal Justice Services; schoolresource officers; establishment of minimum employment qualificationsprohibited. Prohibits the Department of Criminal Justice Servicesfrom establishing minimum qualifications for the employment of schoolresource officers, including any minimum age or experience requirement,or providing guidance or standards or adopting regulations relatingto such minimum qualifications unless expressly authorized by law.