HR 1574 · 107th Congress 2001–2003, ended

Pharmaceutical Products Price Equity Act

Introduced Apr 24, 2001 Originated House Sponsor Major R. Owens D-NY

Fact sheet

Latest action · Sep 28, 2001 Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

  1. IntroducedApr 24, 2001
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Pharmaceutical Products Price Equity Act - Directs the President to issue orders and regulations, and establish procedures and reporting requirements to ensure that no pharmaceutical product is sold to any consumer in the United States at a price that is more than six percent above the average retail price at which such pharmaceutical product is sold in the five most industrialized, free-market countries, other than the United States. Sets forth enforcement and civil liability provisions.

Cosponsors

Members who signed on, in the order they did.

No cosponsors are on file for this measure.

Actions 4

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Sep 28, 2001Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
  2. May 4, 2001Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
  3. Apr 24, 2001Introduced in House
  4. Apr 24, 2001Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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.

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.

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