Ensuring Seniors Access to Local Pharmacies Act of 2014
Latest action · May 9, 2014 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
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.
- IntroducedMay 6, 2014
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Ensuring Seniors Access to Local Pharmacies Act of 2014 - 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.
Cosponsors 80
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from May 6, 2014 to Dec 11, 2014, with 1 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-VT | Peter Welch | Original | May 6, 2014 |
| R-KY | Thomas Massie | May 9, 2014 | |
| R-TN | David P. Roe | May 19, 2014 | |
| D-GA | Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. | May 19, 2014 | |
| D-OH | Tim Ryan | May 19, 2014 | |
| R-NC | Walter B. Jones | May 19, 2014 | |
| D-IA | Bruce L. Braley | May 21, 2014 | |
| R-GA | Doug Collins | May 21, 2014 | |
| R-MS | Gregg Harper | May 21, 2014 | |
| R-PA | Bill Shuster | May 22, 2014 | |
| R-GA | Lynn A. Westmoreland | May 28, 2014 | |
| R-AL | Mike Rogers | May 28, 2014 | |
| R-AR | Tom Cotton | May 28, 2014 | |
| R-GA | Austin Scott | May 29, 2014 | |
| D-IA | David Loebsack | May 29, 2014 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- May 9, 2014Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- May 6, 2014Introduced in House
- May 6, 2014Referred 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.
Subjects
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- May 6, 2014Introduced in House
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