Bill
National Health Amendment (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Bill 2019
passed, as at 2019-10-02. Health portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Health
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2019-07-04
- second reading — 2019-07-04
- second reading — 2019-09-11
- second reading — 2019-09-11
- third reading — 2019-09-11
- introduced — 2019-09-11
- second reading — 2019-09-11
- second reading — 2019-09-19
- second reading — 2019-09-19
- third reading — 2019-09-19
- passed — 2019-09-19
- royal assent — 2019-10-02
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2019-07-04.
This bill changes the rules for the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, which helps Australians get medicines.
It introduces a charge for pharmacists when they ask to be allowed to dispense PBS medicines at a particular location.
The charge is meant to recover all the government's costs of processing these requests, as part of a budget measure from 2018-19.
- The bill adds a fee for pharmacists' applications to supply PBS medicines at specific premises.
- The bill aims to recover the full costs of processing those applications.
- The bill also addresses keeping PBS medicines available when a pharmacy goes bankrupt or is under external administration.
Pharmacists and pharmacies that apply to supply PBS medicines, and patients who rely on those medicines.
Sources
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