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SB 264: Step-therapy Protocols

GENERAL BILL by Harrell

Step-therapy Protocols; 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.

Effective Date: Except as otherwise expressly provided in this act and except for this section, which shall take effect upon this act becoming a law, this act shall take effect October 1, 2025
 Last Action: 2/19/2025 Senate - Now in Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services
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Senate Committee References:
  1. Health Policy (HP)
  2. Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services (AHS)
  3. Fiscal Policy (FP)


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Bill History

Date Chamber Action
1/15/2025 Senate • Filed
1/29/2025 Senate • Referred to Health Policy; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Fiscal Policy
2/10/2025 Senate • On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 02/18/25, 1:45 pm, 412 Knott Building
2/18/2025 Senate • Favorable by Health Policy; YEAS 9 NAYS 0
2/19/2025 Senate • Now in Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services