Step-therapy Protocols

What it does

The legislature's own summary of the bill, or its official long title.

Defining the term “serious mental illness”; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to approve drug products for Medicaid recipients for the treatment of serious mental illness without step-therapy prior authorization under certain circumstances; directing the agency to include rate impacts resulting from the act in certain rates that become effective on a specified date, etc.

Every action

8 steps, oldest first, as the legislature records them.

1. Jan 15, 2025SenateFiled
2. Jan 29, 2025CommitteeReferred to Health Policy; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Fiscal Policy · Senate Health Policy
3. Feb 10, 2025CommitteeOn Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 02/18/25, 1:45 pm, 412 Knott Building · Senate Health Policy
4. Feb 18, 2025CommitteeFavorable by Health Policy; YEAS 9 NAYS 0 · Senate Health Policy9–0 vote
5. Feb 19, 2025CommitteeNow in Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services · Senate Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services
6. Mar 4, 2025SenateIntroduced
7. May 3, 2025SenateIndefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
8. Jun 16, 2025CommitteeDied in Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services · Senate Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services

Roll calls

1 recorded vote: 0 on the floor, 1 in committee. Each shows how every member voted.

Committee votes

Sponsors

The member who introduced it.

• Gayle HarrellR Primary sponsor · District 31