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HB1217Introduced in the House

Provides with respect to pharmacy benefit managers

EngrossedSenate Health & Welfare

Introduced by Michael Echols, District 14

What does this bill do?

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Official description

Provides with respect to pharmacy benefit managers

Where it stands

Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.

May 5, 2026

How did lawmakers vote?

HouseStage: House Vote on HB 1217 FINAL PASSAGE (#844) · April 29, 2026

93

Yes

0

No

12

Absent or Not Voting

105 representatives recorded in this House vote. Colors show vote categories only, not whether a vote was good or bad.

See how each representative voted

RepresentativeDistrictVote
Danny McCormick1Yes
Steven Jackson2Yes
Tammy Phelps3Absent
Joy Walters4Yes
Dennis Bamburg5Yes
Michael Melerine6Yes
Lawrence Bagley7Yes
Raymond Crews8Yes
Dodie Horton9Yes
Wayne McMahen10Yes

Bill history

  1. Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

  2. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.

  3. Reported with amendments (10-0).

  4. Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.

  5. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/29/2026.

  6. Read by title, returned to the calendar.

  7. Called from the calendar.

  8. Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

  9. Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.

  10. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.

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