3.0.0 3384 2022-02-08T23:23:00Z 2022-02-08T23:23:00Z Senate S 2020-03-03 116 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2020-03-03T23:53:13Z Safe and Affordable Drugs from Canada Act of 2019 116 478 HR 2019-01-25 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Related bill CRS Stop STALLING Act 116 2374 HR 2020-12-24 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 577. Related bill CRS Ensuring Timely Access to Generics Act of 2019 116 2455 HR 2019-05-02 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Related bill CRS Safe and Affordable Drugs from Canada Act of 2019 116 61 S 2019-01-09 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Related bill CRS Preserve Access to Affordable Generics and Biosimilars Act 116 64 S 2019-01-09 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Related bill CRS Ensuring Timely Access to Generics Act of 2019 116 1169 S 2019-04-11 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Related bill CRS Stop STALLING Act 116 1224 S 2019-06-28 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 130. Related bill CRS 2020-03-03 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2020-03-03 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress M001197 Sen. McSally, Martha [R-AZ] Martha McSally R AZ N Health Administrative law and regulatory procedures Administrative remedies Business ethics Canada Civil actions and liability Competition and antitrust Department of Health and Human Services Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Government information and archives Health care costs and insurance Health information and medical records Inflation and prices Intellectual property Licensing and registrations Manufacturing Medicare Prescription drugs Public participation and lobbying Trade restrictions Health 00 2020-03-03 Introduced in Senate 2021-01-11T22:09:46Z Lowering Prescription Drug Prices for America's Seniors and Families Act of 2020

This bill makes a series of changes to requirements relating to prescription drug prices. Among other changes, the bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to negotiate the prices of certain covered drugs under the Medicare prescription drug benefit, allows individuals to import certain drugs from Canada to fill personal prescriptions, and establishes specific enforcement actions against patent infringement agreements that involve generic drug manufacturers and have anticompetitive effects.

]]> Lowering Prescription Drug Prices for America’s Seniors and Families Act of 2020 Display Title Lowering Prescription Drug Prices for America’s Seniors and Families Act of 2020 Short Title(s) as Introduced Lowering Prescription Drug Prices for America’s Seniors and Families Act of 2020 Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced A bill to allow for negotiation of prices for certain covered Medicare part D drugs, to allow for importation by individuals of prescription drugs from Canada, to preserve access to affordable generics and biosimilars, to increase the use of real-time benefit tools to lower beneficiary costs, to establish a manufacturer discount program, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-116s3384is/xml/BILLS-116s3384is.xml 2020-03-03 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.