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Bills · 2021-2022 Regular Session

AB 549

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Relating to: pharmacy benefits tool grants, education and higher education funding, and making an appropriation. (FE)

Children — Special educational needs Drugs Insurance — Commissioner office of Pharmacy Physician Public instruction department of Technical college system board University of wisconsin — Finance

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill directs the Office of the Commissioner of Insurance to award grants

in an amount of up to $500,000 in each fiscal year to health care providers to develop

and implement a tool that would allow prescribers to disclose the cost of prescription

drugs for patients. The tool must be usable by physicians and other prescribers to

determine the cost of prescription drugs for their patients. Any health care provider

that receives a grant to develop and implement a patient pharmacy benefits tool is

required to contribute matching funds equal to at least 50 percent of the total grant

awarded. If the grants are awarded, the bill provides additional funding to the

Department of Public Instruction for aids for special education and to the University

of Wisconsin System and the technical college system.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Anderson (D) , Cabrera (D) , Conley (D) , Considine (D) , Doyle (D) , Emerson (D) , Hebl (D) , Hesselbein (D) , Hong (D) , Milroy (D) , Neubauer (D) , Ohnstad (D) , Pope (D) , S. Rodriguez (D) , Shankland (D) , Shelton (D) , Sinicki (D) , Snodgrass (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Stubbs (D) , Subeck (D) , Vruwink (D)

8 cosponsors

Agard (D) , Bewley (D) , Carpenter (D) , Erpenbach (D) , Johnson (D) , Larson (D) , Pfaff (D) , Ringhand (D)

Full history

  1. Sep 10, 2021 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Subeck, Cabrera, Anderson, Conley, Considine, Doyle, Emerson, Hebl, Hesselbein, Hong, Milroy, Neubauer, Ohnstad, Pope, S. Rodriguez, Shankland, Shelton, Sinicki, Snodgrass, Spreitzer, Stubbs and Vruwink; cosponsored by Senators Erpenbach, Johnson, Agard, Bewley, Carpenter, Larson, Pfaff and Ringhand

  2. Sep 10, 2021 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Insurance

  3. Sep 27, 2021 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Sep 27, 2021 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Sep 28, 2021 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  6. Oct 1, 2021 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  7. Oct 6, 2021 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  8. Mar 15, 2022 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1