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Ensuring Seniors Access to Local Pharmacies Act of 2015

Introduced: February 5, 2015 Introduced by: Griffith, H. Morgan Republican · Virginia See on congress.gov
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Feb 27, 2015
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Feb 6, 2015
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Feb 5, 2015
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Feb 5, 2015
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Ensuring Seniors Access to Local Pharmacies Act of 2015

Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct any prescription drug plan that has in its network one or more pharmacies located in a health professional shortage area, in a medically underserved area, or among a medically underserved population, and that provides a reduction in coinsurance or copayments for covered part D drugs, to extend to any pharmacy located in that area, or among that population, the option to be an in-network pharmacy under terms and conditions comparable to those the plan has agreed upon with other in-network pharmacies located in the area or among that population.

What's happening now February 27, 2015

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

 Related & companion bills 1
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 Bill text 1 version

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 4
 Cosponsors 45
All 45 Democratic 15 Republican 21
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Doggett, Lloyd
Texas · Nov 16, 2016
Dent, Charles
· Sep 12, 2016
Graves, Tom
· Sep 8, 2016
 R
Wittman, Robert J.
Virginia · Jun 9, 2016
 D
Ruiz, Raul
California · Apr 26, 2016
 D
Cohen, Steve
Tennessee · Apr 18, 2016
 D
Norton, Eleanor Holmes
District of Columbia · Apr 15, 2016
 D
Pocan, Mark
Wisconsin · Apr 12, 2016
 R
Stefanik, Elise M.
New York · Mar 23, 2016
 R
Sessions, Pete
Texas · Mar 21, 2016
 R
Babin, Brian
Texas · Feb 12, 2016
 R
Cramer, Kevin
North Dakota · Feb 1, 2016
 R
Joyce, David P.
Ohio · Jan 8, 2016
 D
Sewell, Terri A.
Alabama · Dec 8, 2015
 D
Tonko, Paul
New York · Nov 18, 2015
 D
Kaptur, Marcy
Ohio · Nov 16, 2015
 R
Rogers, Harold
Kentucky · Nov 5, 2015
 D
Bishop, Sanford D.
Georgia · Nov 2, 2015
 D
Clarke, Yvette D.
New York · Nov 2, 2015
 R
Williams, Roger
Texas · Nov 2, 2015
 D
Chu, Judy
California · Oct 8, 2015
 R
Guthrie, Brett
Kentucky · Sep 17, 2015
 D
Schakowsky, Janice D.
Illinois · Sep 11, 2015
Jenkins, Evan
· Jul 13, 2015
Abraham, Ralph
· Jul 7, 2015
 R
Westerman, Bruce
Arkansas · Jun 1, 2015
Bridenstine, Jim
· May 21, 2015
 D
Thompson, Bennie G.
Mississippi · May 19, 2015
 R
Gosar, Paul A.
Arizona · May 15, 2015
Young, David
· May 15, 2015
 D
Beatty, Joyce
Ohio · May 14, 2015
 R
Rogers, Mike D.
Alabama · May 14, 2015
 R
Huizenga, Bill
Michigan · Apr 29, 2015
 R
Amodei, Mark E.
Nevada · Apr 28, 2015
 R
Harris, Andy
Maryland · Apr 16, 2015
 R
Allen, Rick W.
Georgia · Apr 15, 2015
Comstock, Barbara
· Apr 13, 2015
 R
Crawford, Eric A. "Rick"
Arkansas · Apr 13, 2015
 R
Carter, Earl L. "Buddy"
Georgia · Mar 4, 2015
 R
Scott, Austin
Georgia · Mar 2, 2015
Collins, Doug
· Feb 24, 2015
Blum, Rod
· Feb 13, 2015
 R
Fleischmann, Charles J. "Chuck"
Tennessee · Feb 11, 2015
 R
Massie, Thomas
Kentucky · Feb 11, 2015
 D
Welch, Peter
Vermont · Feb 5, 2015
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 793: Ensuring Seniors Access to Local Pharmacies Act of 2015. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-793/
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