BILL NUMBER: AB 1394	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Thurmond

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2015

   An act to amend Section 130502 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to prescription drugs.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1394, as introduced, Thurmond. Prescription drugs.
   Existing law establishes the California Discount Prescription Drug
Program, which is administered by the State Department of Health
Care Services, under which qualified individuals are provided with
prescription drugs at reduced prices that result from rebate
agreements between the department and drug manufacturers. Existing
law requires all moneys received by the department pursuant to the
administration of the program to be deposited into the California
Discount Prescription Drug Program Fund, a continuously appropriated
fund, for the purpose of providing payment to participating
pharmacies and for defraying its costs in administering the program,
and prohibits moneys in the fund from being available for any other
purpose. Existing law implements the program only to the extent that
moneys are appropriated to the department to implement the program.
Existing law makes the program inoperative on February 1, 2015, and
thereafter repealed on January 1, 2016, if no moneys are appropriated
to the department to implement the program.
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to a
provision related to the program.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 130502 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
   130502.  The California Discount Prescription Drug Program is
 hereby  established within the department.