HB2768ham002 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Rep. Ron Stephens

Filed: 4/7/2005

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2768

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 2768 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the following:

"Section 5. The Pharmacy Practice Act of 1987 is amended by adding Section 24.5 as follows:

(225 ILCS 85/24.5 new)

Sec. 24.5. Sale of prescription drugs at best price. If a wholesale drug distributor or pharmacy benefit manager has entered into a contract with the State to sell or negotiate the sale of a prescription drug to the State at a particular price, then, upon the request of any pharmacy domiciled in this State, the wholesale drug distributor or pharmacy benefit manager must disclose that price and make that prescription drug available to the pharmacy at that same price during the period that the contract with the State is in effect, regardless of the quantity of the drug purchased by the pharmacy. This Section applies only to contracts for the sale of prescription drugs entered into between a pharmacy and a wholesale drug distributor or pharmacy benefit manager on or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly.

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.".