Wisconsin Legislature: SB1

SB1

Senate
Record of Committee Proceedings

Committee on Health, Utilities, Veterans and Military Affairs
Senate Bill 1
Relating to: requiring pharmacies and pharmacists, as a condition of medical assistance participation, to charge elderly persons for prescription drugs no more than specific amounts; specifying requirements for rebate agreements between the department of health and family services and drug manufacturers; requiring the department of health and family services to seek a waiver to provide medical assistance eligibility to certain persons for purposes of a prescription drug benefit; requiring the exercise of rule-making authority; making appropriations; and providing penalties.
By Senators Robson, Plache, Roessler, Shibilski, Erpenbach, Chvala, Baumgart, George, Grobschmidt, Hansen, Jauch, Risser, Wirch, Moen and M. Meyer; cosponsored by Representatives Plouff, Krusick, Schooff, Krug, Berceau, Black, Bock, Boyle, Carpenter, Coggs, Colon, Cullen, Gronemus, Hebl, La Fave, Lassa, J. Lehman, Meyerhofer, Miller, Plale, Pocan, Reynolds, Richards, Riley, Ryba, Sherman, Shilling, Sinicki, Turner, Young, Wood, Schneider, Wasserman, Balow, Morris-Tatum, Huber and Staskunas.

January 12, 2001 Referred to Committee on Health, Utilities, Veterans and Military Affairs.

January 23, 2001

PUBLIC HEARING HELD

Present: (9) Senators Moen, Breske, Robson, Erpenbach, M. Meyer, Rosenzweig, Cowles, S. Fitzgerald and Lazich.

Absent: (0) None.

Appearances for

· Senator Judy Robson, 15th Senate District

· Representative Mark Miller, 48th Assembly District

· Grace Leonard, Verona

· George McKinney, Milwaukee

· Todd Allbaugh, State Senator Dale Schultz

· Carolyn Castore, WI Citizen Action

· Gina Dennik Champion, WI Nurses Assn.

· Tom Engels, Pharmacy Society of WI

· David Slautterback, AARP

· Deb Martin-Lightfoot, Madison

· Eileen Kohlhardt, Milwaukee

Appearances against

· Tom Moore, PhRMA

· Marjorie Powell, PhRMA

Appearances for Information Only

· Jerome Spector, Pharmacy Buying Group of America

Registrations for

· Audrey Kuhlenbeck, Fond du Lac

· John Kuhlenback, Fond du Lac

· Lola Luttig, Richland Center

· Robert Gerlach, Greenfield

· Ross Boone, Twin Lakes

· Irene Dienes, Blue River

· Donna Anthon, Pardeeville

· Vivian Freber, Richland Center

· Tom Frazier, CWAG

· Representative Peggy Krusick, 97th Assembly District

· Oliver Haase, Greendale

· Nellie Wilson, Milwaukee

· Virginia Winkler, Elkhorn

· Arley Ubrig, East Troy

· Dee Pauls, Lone Rock

· Marilyn Neuhoff, Fall River

· Sandy York, Janesville

· Agnes Stowell, Richland Center

· Gladys Aken, Richland Center

· Helen Kraus, Janesville

· Lucille Propst, Prairie du Sac

· Tillie Breun, Sauk City

· Alyce Sugden, Richland Center

· Muriel Thompson, Williams Bay

· Sherlie Thorson, Williams Bay

· Jackie Larson, Richland Center

· La Denna Chitwood, Richland Center

· Eleanor Henning, Fond du Lac

· Florence Walter, Fond du Lac

· Marvin Herman, Delavan

· Judy Licata, Delavan

· Ellen Rabenhorst, Madison

· Helen Sears, Fond du Lac

· Gordon Davis, Sauk City

· Harold Kirk, Prairie du Sac

· Verna Abler, Fond du Lac

· Marie Hannawill, Richland Center

· Don Hannawill, Richland Center

· Shirley Williams, Lake Geneva

· Virginia Ring, Delavan

· Richard Schultz, Whitewater

· Chester Czysz, South Milwaukee

· Jean Czysz, South Milwaukee

· Charles Hall, Greenfield

· Mary Jo Rimkus, Madison

· Leon Walter, Delavan

· Barbara Matthews, Madison

· Catherine Barreau, Richland Center

· Mildren Goodman, Richland Center

· Marjorie Imhof, Muscoda

· Marilyn Anderson, Richland Center

· D'Anna Bowman, Madison

· Betty Felten, Elkhorn

· Vera Boone, Twin Lakes

· Joanne Ricca, WI State AFL-CIO

· Lisa Lamkins, Sun Prairie

· Louise Wipperfurth, Lodi

· Irene Statz, Lodi

· Philip Statz, Lodi

· Violet Burmeister, Portage

· Donna Wagner, Portage

· Bert Wagner, Portage

· Gordon Sutfin, Portage

· Florence Sutfin, Portage

· Yvonne Greiner, Portage

· Helen Wanless, Richland Center

· Eleanor Aken, Richland Center

· Clare Delaney, Lake Geneva

· William Seariol, Pardeeville

· Robert Bonetti, Madison

· Blanche, Dahlin, Lake Geneva

· Dianne Ketchpaw, Lake Geneva

· Paul Rabenhorst, Madison

· A Jeanette Howe, Elkhorn

· Helen Hoke, Elkhorn

· Bernard Dearey, Fond du Lac

· Helen Piantini, Lake Geneva

· Josephine Biddle, Elkhorn

· Bernard Watli, Burlington

· Donald Felten, Elkhorn

· Myrt Hembree, Pardeeville

· George Hembree, Pardeeville

· Vera Boone, Twin Lakes

· Evelyn Cash, Janesville

· Martin Fliegel, Madison

· Henry Grundahl, Mt. Horeb

· Virginia Blood, Richland Center

· Margaret Anderson, Portage

· Dorothy Jenkins, Portage

· Rosemary Boclane, Genoa City

· James Heersma, Blue River

· Susan Hayes, Portage

· Lola Armson, WI Dells

· Dorothy Hursman, Blue River

· Gladys Malys, Richland Center

· Joan Goerlitz, Richland Center

· Kate Kepler, Richland Center

· Virginia Waldsmith, Richland Center

· Marian Todd, Madison

· Evelyn Osthoff, Madison

· Virginia Stluka, Madison

· A Rowland Todd, Madison

· Alex Smith, Elkhorn

· Hazel Bayley, Madison

· Ray Bayley, Madison

· Reba Emerson, Rio

· Elsie Neland, Rio

· Norman Land, Rio

· James Lake, Madison

· Victor Jesudadow, Madison

· David Hyson, Madison

· Hazel, Leitmann, Williams Bay

· William Leitmann, Williams Bay

· Kathryn Kuhn, Medical College of WI

· William Donaldson, BOALTC

· Paul Kusuda, Madison

· Marian Sowle, Richland Center

· Thomas McCarthy, Richland Center

· Wilma Clark, Muscoda

· Charles Rodgers, Fond du Lac

· Luella Lenhardt, Fond du Lac

· Roy Lenhardt, Fond du Lac

· Gwen Daluge, Janesville

· Nellie Thompson, Richland Center

· Gertrude Bartnuk, Portage

· Edrie Klingeman, Richland Center

· Kathleen Smith, Portage

· Eleanor Poole, Richland Center

· Elda Hoyt, Avalon

· Norma Fenske, Portage

· Dorothea Quam, Portage

· Louis Kroll, Silver Lake

· Viola Jacobs, Elkhorn

· Dorothy Molony, Lodi

· Laurette Lopardo, Elkhorn

· Charles Lopardo, Elkhorn

· Lee Anncali, Elkhorn

· Pauline Klinzing, Richland Center

· Ethel Ewing, Richland Center

· Mary Kyran Curtin, Poynette

· Ed Jacobson, Lodi

· Rose McVeigh, Sauk City

· Fred Applegate, Arlington

· Senator Fred Risser, 26th Senate District

· Marge Rosenthal, Madison

· Rudolph Dienes, Blue River

· Katherine Wenban, Madison

Registrations against

· Cheryl Luria, Glaxo Smith Kline

January 23, 2001

EXECUTIVE SESSION

Present: (9) Senators Moen, Breske, Robson, Erpenbach, M. Meyer, Rosenzweig, Cowles, S. Fitzgerald and Lazich.

Absent: (0) None.

Moved by Senator Breske, seconded by Senator M. Meyer, that

Senate Substitute Amendent 1

be recommended for introduction.

Ayes: (6) Senators Moen, Breske, Robson, Erpenbach, M. Meyer and Rosenzweig.

Noes: (3) Senators Cowles, S. Fitzgerald and Lazich.

Absent: (0) None.

INTRODUCTION RECOMMENDED, Ayes 6, Noes 3, Absent 0

Moved by Senator Robson, seconded by Senator Breske, that

Senate Amendent 1 to Senate Substitute Amendment 1

be recommended for introduction and adoption.

Ayes: (9) Senators Moen, Breske, Robson, Erpenbach, M. Meyer, Rosenzweig, Cowles, S. Fitzgerald and Lazich.

Noes: (0) None.

Absent: (0) None.

INTRODUCTION AND ADOPTION RECOMMENDED, Ayes 9, Noes 0, Absent 0

Moved by Senator Robson, seconded by Senator M. Meyer, that

Senate Substitute Amendment 1 as amended

be recommended for adoption.

Ayes: (6) Senators Moen, Breske, Robson, Erpenbach, M. Meyer and Rosenzweig.

Noes: (3) Senators Cowles, S. Fitzgerald and Lazich.

Absent: (0) None.

ADOPTION RECOMMENDED, Ayes 6, Noes 3, Absent 0

Moved by Senator Breske, seconded by Senator Erpenbach, that

Senate Bill 1

be recommended for passage as amended.

Ayes: (5) Senators Moen, Breske, Robson, Erpenbach and M. Meyer.

Noes: (4) Senators Rosenzweig, Cowles, S. Fitzgerald and Lazich.

Absent: (0) None.

PASSAGE AS AMENDED RECOMMENDED, Ayes 5, Noes 4, Absent 0

Committee Clerk