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+type: "Bill"
+title: "An Act relating to prescription prices available to consumers; relating to penalties for certain pharmacy or pharmacist violations; relating to the registration and duties of pharmacy benefits managers; relating to procedures, guidelines, and enforcement mechanisms for pharmacy audits; relating to the cost of multi-source generic drugs and insurance reimbursement procedures; relating to the duties of the director of the division of insurance; and providing for an effective date."
+description: "An Act relating to prescription prices available to consumers; relating to penalties for certain pharmacy or pharmacist violations; relating to the registration and duties of pharmacy benefits managers; relating to procedures, guidelines, and enforcement mechanisms for pharmacy audits; relating to the cost of multi-source generic drugs and insurance reimbursement procedures; relating to the duties of the director of the division of insurance; and providing for an effective date."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ak"
+legislature: "Alaska Legislature"
+session: "30"
+identifier: "HB 240"
+citation: "Alaska HB 240 (30)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["APPEALS", "AUDITS", "CRIMES", "DRUGS", "INSURANCE", "LICENSING", "PHARMACISTS"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["GUTTENBERG"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 51
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-04-28"
+last_action: "2018-11-07"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ff509d54-f8fb-4fe1-ba49-6c2694636ed4"
+source_url: "https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Detail/30?Root=HB240"
+source_hash: "475c2877ece513fed283f256df8159f5065f5169b7279d1608747ebee06856aa"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ak"]
+---
+
+# Alaska HB 240 (30) — An Act relating to prescription prices available to consumers; relating to penalties for certain pharmacy or pharmacist violations; relating to the registration and duties of pharmacy benefits managers; relating to procedures, guidelines, and enforcement mechanisms for pharmacy audits; relating to the cost of multi-source generic drugs and insurance reimbursement procedures; relating to the duties of the director of the division of insurance; and providing for an effective date.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB0240A** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Text/30?hsid=HB0240A)
+2. **HB0240B** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Text/30?hsid=HB0240B)
+3. **HB0240Z** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Text/30?hsid=HB0240Z)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Shall CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 240(FIN) "An Act relating to prescription prices available to consumers; relating to penalties for certain pharmacy or pharmacist violations; relating to the registration and duties of pharmacy benefits managers; relating to procedures, guidelines, and enforcement mechanisms for pharmacy audits; relating to the cost of multi-source generic drugs and insurance reimbursement procedures; relating to the duties of the director of the division of insurance; and providing for an effective date" pass the Senate? — **19–0** (pass) · upper
+- Shall CSHB 240(FIN) pass the House? — **40–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- GUTTENBERG — primary (person)
+- Drummond — cosponsor (person)
+- Gara — cosponsor (person)
+- Kawasaki — cosponsor (person)
+- Kito — cosponsor (person)
+- Knopp — cosponsor (person)
+- Kopp — cosponsor (person)
+- Kreiss-Tomkins — cosponsor (person)
+- Ortiz — cosponsor (person)
+- Parish — cosponsor (person)
+- Spohnholz — cosponsor (person)
+- Stutes — cosponsor (person)
+- Tarr — cosponsor (person)
+- Tuck — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-04-28** Read the first time - REFERRALS `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2017-04-28** L&C, FIN
+- **2017-05-12** Cosponsors added: ORTIZ
+- **2018-02-02** Cosponsors added: KREISS-TOMKINS
+- **2018-02-05** L&C RPT 2DP 1DNP 4NR
+- **2018-02-05** L&C Do Pass: WOOL, KITO `committee-passage`
+- **2018-02-05** L&C Do Not Pass: SULLIVAN-LEONARD `committee-failure`
+- **2018-02-05** L&C No Recommendation: STUTES, KNOPP, BIRCH, JOSEPHSON
+- **2018-02-05** Fiscal Note 1: No fiscal impact (Commerce, Community & Economic Development)
+- **2018-02-05** Fiscal Note 2: Indeterminate fiscal impact (Administration)
+- **2018-02-09** Cosponsors added: PARISH, KITO
+- **2018-03-02** Cosponsors added: KNOPP
+- **2018-04-06** FIN RPT CS(FIN) NT 8DP 3NR
+- **2018-04-06** FIN Do Pass: GARA, KAWASAKI, ORTIZ, THOMPSON, GUTTENBERG, GRENN, SEATON, FOSTER `committee-passage`
+- **2018-04-06** FIN No Recommendation: WILSON, TILTON, PRUITT
+- **2018-04-06** Fiscal Note 1: No fiscal impact (Commerce, Community & Economic Development)
+- **2018-04-06** Fiscal Note 3: No fiscal impact (Administration)
+- **2018-04-06** Cosponsors added: GARA
+- **2018-04-09** Cosponsors added: DRUMMOND, SPOHNHOLZ
+- **2018-04-13** RULES TO CALENDAR 4/13/2018
+- **2018-04-13** Read the second time `reading-2`
+- **2018-04-13** FIN CS ADOPTED UC
+- **2018-04-13** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING UC
+- **2018-04-13** Read the third time CSHB 240(FIN) `reading-3`
+- **2018-04-13** PASSED Y40 `passage`
+- **2018-04-13** EFFECTIVE DATE(S) SAME AS PASSAGE
+- **2018-04-13** Cosponsors added: KAWASAKI, STUTES, KOPP, TUCK, TARR
+- **2018-04-13** TRANSMITTED TO (S)
+- **2018-04-13** VERSION: CSHB 240(FIN)
+- **2018-04-14** Read the first time - REFERRALS `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2018-04-14** Referred to Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2018-04-20** FIN RPT 6DP 1NR
+- **2018-04-20** FIN Do Pass: MACKINNON, HOFFMAN, BISHOP, VON IMHOF, STEVENS, MICCICHE `committee-passage`
+- **2018-04-20** FIN No Recommendation: OLSON
+- **2018-04-20** FN4: ZERO(GOV/COMBINED)
+- **2018-04-20** CROSS SPONSOR(S): GIESSEL, MACKINNON, MICCICHE, STEVENS, GARDNER, EGAN, KELLY
+- **2018-04-27** CROSS SPONSOR(S): STEDMAN
+- **2018-04-30** CROSS SPONSOR(S): BEGICH
+- **2018-05-07** RULES TO CALENDAR 5/7/2018
+- **2018-05-07** Read the second time `reading-2`
+- **2018-05-07** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING UC
+- **2018-05-07** Read the third time CSHB 240(FIN) `reading-3`
+- **2018-05-07** CROSS SPONSOR(S): WIELECHOWSKI, COGHILL, OLSON, MEYER, HUGHES, BISHOP
+- **2018-05-07** PASSED Y19 N- E1 `passage`
+- **2018-05-07** EFFECTIVE DATE(S) SAME AS PASSAGE
+- **2018-05-07** RETURN TO (H), TRANSMIT TO GOV NEXT
+- **2018-05-07** VERSION: CSHB 240(FIN)
+- **2018-06-27** MANIFEST ERROR(S)
+- **2018-11-07** 10:45 AM 8/22/18 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-11-07** Signed into law 9/4 CHAPTER 100 SLA 18 `executive-signature`
+- **2018-11-07** EFFECTIVE DATE(S) OF LAW SEE CHAPTER
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ff509d54-f8fb-4fe1-ba49-6c2694636ed4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alaska legislature records).
+