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2025 Session

Budget Amendments - HB1600 (Member Request)

Chief Patron: Delaney
HB 1724: Establish Prescription Drug Affordability Board (language only)

Item 283.10 #1h

Item 283.10 #1h

Health and Human Resources
Department of Health

Language
Page 356, after line 49, insert:

"283.10 Establish Prescription Drug Affordability Board$0$644,075
Fund Sources:  General $0 $644,075 "


Explanation

(This amendment provides $644,075 the second year from the general fund and three positions for the fiscal impact of House Bill 1724, which establishes the Prescription Drug Affordability Board for the purpose of identifying high cost prescription drugs, reviewing pricing and cost information, conducting affordability reviews of selected prescription drug products, and if necessary, setting an upper payment limit, which shall apply to all purchases and payer reimbursements for the product dispensed in the Commonwealth.)