[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2837 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2837

  To amend the Public Health Service Act to clarify rules relating to 
                  drug discounts for covered entities.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 23, 2021

   Mr. Braun introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
  referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Public Health Service Act to clarify rules relating to 
                  drug discounts for covered entities.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``340B Accountability Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. DRUG DISCOUNTS AND AUDITS FOR COVERED ENTITIES.

    Section 340B(a)(5)(C) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 
256b(a)(5)(C)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``A covered entity shall permit'' and 
        inserting the following:
                            ``(i) Duplicate discounts and drug 
                        resale.--A covered entity shall permit''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
                            ``(i) Use of savings.--A covered entity 
                        shall permit the Secretary to audit, at the 
                        Secretary's expense, the records of the entity 
                        to determine how net income from purchases 
                        under this section are used by the covered 
                        entity.
                            ``(ii) Records retention.--A covered entity 
                        shall retain such records and provide such 
                        records and reports as determined necessary by 
                        the Secretary for carrying out this 
                        subparagraph.''.
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