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General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 5516
January Session, 2019
LCO No. 1017
Referred to Committee on INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE
Introduced by:
REP. O'NEILL, 69th Dist.
AN ACT CONCERNING RETAIL PHARMACIES AND EXTENDED
SUPPLIES OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
That the general statutes be amended to provide that (1) each retail 1
pharmacy licensed in this state may, upon request from an insured, 2
dispense a sixty to ninety-day supply of a prescription drug to the 3
insured if such insured holds a valid prescription for such supply, and 4
(2) no health carrier shall prohibit a retail pharmacy from dispensing 5
such a supply to such an insured. 6
Statement of Purpose:
To provide that each retail pharmacy licensed in this state may, upon
request from an insured, dispense a sixty to ninety-day supply of a
prescription drug to the insured if such insured holds a valid
prescription for such supply, and that no health carrier shall prohibit a
retail pharmacy from dispensing such a supply to such an insured.