Pharmacy benefit manager rules
Should laws restrict how pharmacy benefit managers set prices and choose participating pharmacies? 13 bills, 2 became law. Latest: California SB 41, became law, Oct 11, 2025.
- Open now
- 2
- Coming back
- 1
- Became law
- 2
- Stopped
- 8
The bills
What can still move first, then what may return next session, then laws and what stopped. Newest first in each.
Can still move 2
- Can still moveRelates to payments by a pharmacy benefit manager to participating pharmaciesPassed both chambers
- Congress back Nov 9, dies Jan 3, 2027Prescription Drug Transparency and Affordability ActIn committee
May return next session 1
- Filed for next sessionState pharmacy benefits manager; contractual provisions, reportReported from committee
Already law 2
Became law
Pharmacy benefits
California · SB 41
Latest: Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 605, Statutes of 2025 · Oct 11, 2025
Became law
Preserving Access to Rural Independent Pharmacies
Colorado · HB 25-1222
Latest: Governor Signed · May 27, 2025
Stopped: vetoed, failed or out of time 8
- Bill Combined w/SCS SBs 984 & 968 · Mar 12Modifies provisions relating to pharmacy benefits managersSession ended
- Left in Labor and Commerce · Feb 18Health insurance; pharmacy benefits managers; requirements and prohibited conductSession ended
- Incorporated by Commerce and Labor (SB669-Rouse) (15-Y 0-N) · Jan 26Pharmacy benefits managers; various requirements, reportSession ended
- Incorporated by Commerce and Labor (SB669-Rouse) (15-Y 0-N) · Jan 26Health insurance; cost-sharing, pharmacy benefits managers, compensation and duties, civil penaltySession ended
- Second Read and Referred S Insurance and Banking Committee · Jan 8Enacts provisions relating to insurance coverage of health care servicesSession ended
- Left in Labor and Commerce · Feb 5, 2025Health insurance; cost-sharing, pharmacy benefits managers, compensation and duties, civil penaltySession ended
- First reading: referred to Committee on Insurance · Jan 21, 2025Pharmacy benefit managersSession ended
- Failed to report (defeated) in Commerce and Labor (5-Y 10-N) · Jan 20, 2025Health insurance; cost-sharing, pharmacy benefits managers, compensation and duties, civil penaltySession ended
Grouped by AI from the bills closest to Healthcare, by the policy questions they address. Bills in a group may take opposing positions. Grouping as of October 30, 2026. A bill is not a law until it is signed.
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