l9n/ Oregon

2024 Regular Session

House Bill 4113

Requires an insurer, a pharmacy benefit manager and a health care service contractor to count payments made by or on behalf of an enrollee for the costs of certain prescription drugs when calculating the enrollee's contribution to an out-of-pocket maximum, deductible, copayment, coinsurance or other required cost-sharing for the drugs.

Became law as Chapter 35, Oregon Laws 2024, signed March 27, 2024, 51 days after it was filed. In force from January 1, 2025.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislative Assembly published with the bill.

Digest: The Act applies to insurers and other entities that pay for drugs for people who have insurance. The Act requires insurers and others to count toward any costs that an insured person must pay for their drugs, the amounts paid from coupons or by other third parties. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.5). Requires an insurer, a pharmacy benefit manager[<i>, the Public Employees' Benefit Board, the Oregon Educators Benefit Board</i>] and a health care service contractor to count payments made by or on behalf of an enrollee for the costs of certain prescription drugs when calculating the enrollee's contribution to an out-of-pocket maximum, deductible, copayment, coinsurance or other required cost-sharing for the drugs.

Sponsors

Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.

Its course

February 5 to March 28, 2024, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.

Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.

Every action19 actions on 16 days

In the House of RepresentativesFeb 5 to Feb 2015 days

Waiting for a committeeFeb 5 to Feb 50 days

Behavioral Health and Health CareFeb 5 to Feb 1510 days

In the SenateFeb 20 to Mar 514 days

Waiting for a committeeFeb 20 to Feb 211 day

Health CareFeb 21 to Mar 19 days

With the GovernorMar 5 to Mar 2722 days

Votes

Yeas to nays, as the Legislative Assembly recorded them. Committee votes are set in.

  • House of Representatives, third reading58–0

    Passed · Feb 20 · 2 present

  • Senate, third reading30–0

    Passed · Mar 5

Amendments

Each amendment offered, and what became of it.

  • House of Representatives committee amendmentAdopted

    Adopted Feb 15

Text

Each version as the Legislative Assembly printed it.

l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.

What happened

In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the Legislative Assembly published it is below.

In the House of Representatives Feb 5 – Feb 20

  1. Introduced
  2. Sent to Behavioral Health and Health Care
  3. Heard in Behavioral Health and Health Care
  4. Heard in Behavioral Health and Health Care
  5. Behavioral Health and Health Care recommended it as amended
  6. Read a second time
  7. Passed the House of Representatives, 58 to 0

In the Senate Feb 21 – Mar 5

  1. Arrived in the Senate
  2. Sent to Health Care
  3. Heard in Health Care
  4. Health Care recommended it
  5. Read a second time
  6. Passed the Senate, 30 to 0

To the Governor Mar 6 – Mar 28

  1. Signed in the House of Representatives
  2. Signed in the Senate
  3. Signed by the Governor
  4. Became chapter 35 of Oregon Laws 2024, in force from January 1, 2025
All 19 actions, as published