republic-os/legislation/us/states/al/2019rs/sb-73.md

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Bill	Pharmacy benefit managers, prohibited from restricting pharmacies and pharmacists from disclosing costs information to patients on alternative drugs or other services and costs, enforcement by Insurance Commissioner, audits further regulated including penalties and assessments against pharmacist, Secs. 34-23-184, 34-23-185, 34-23-186 am'd.	Pharmacy benefit managers, prohibited from restricting pharmacies and pharmacists from disclosing costs information to patients on alternative drugs or other services and costs, enforcement by Insurance Commissioner, audits further regulated including penalties and assessments against pharmacist, Secs. 34-23-184, 34-23-185, 34-23-186 am'd.	us/states/al	Alabama Legislature	2019rs	SB 73	Alabama SB 73 (2019rs)	bill	Pharmacies and Pharmacists	enacted	Orr	7	22	6	2019-03-05T05:00:00+00:00	2019-05-30T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/04f6f7fc-be60-4ecb-9ece-d406474c6f86	http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/Alison/SESSBillStatusResult.aspx?BILL=SB73	75682029f25aff44fc692f8fc599942d3fa3643ad50f103074780f25b5021701	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-al

Alabama SB 73 (2019rs) — Pharmacy benefit managers, prohibited from restricting pharmacies and pharmacists from disclosing costs information to patients on alternative drugs or other services and costs, enforcement by Insurance Commissioner, audits further regulated including penalties and assessments against pharmacist, Secs. 34-23-184, 34-23-185, 34-23-186 am'd.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Amd/Sub 200173-4 (committee substitute) — source
3. Amd/Sub 200891-1 (committee substitute) — source
4. Amd/Sub 201210-2 (committee substitute) — source
5. Amd/Sub 201319-1 (committee substitute) — source
6. Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
7. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 1143 — 101–0 (pass) · lower
• Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 773 — 27–0 (pass) · upper
• Orr motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 772 — 27–0 (pass) · upper
• Orr motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 770 — 26–0 (pass) · upper
• Orr motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 769 — 26–0 (pass) · upper
• Orr motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 771 — 27–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Orr — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2019-03-05T05:00:00+00:00 Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Healthcare reading-1, referral-committee
• 2019-05-08T04:00:00+00:00 Read for the second time and placed on the calendar with 1 substitute and 1 amendment reading-2
• 2019-05-15T04:00:00+00:00 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2019-05-15T04:00:00+00:00 Healthcare first Substitute Offered amendment-introduction
• 2019-05-15T04:00:00+00:00 Orr motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 769 amendment-passage
• 2019-05-15T04:00:00+00:00 Healthcare Amendment Offered amendment-introduction
• 2019-05-15T04:00:00+00:00 Orr motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 770 amendment-passage
• 2019-05-15T04:00:00+00:00 Orr Amendment Offered amendment-introduction
• 2019-05-15T04:00:00+00:00 Orr motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 771 amendment-passage
• 2019-05-15T04:00:00+00:00 Orr Amendment Offered amendment-introduction
• 2019-05-15T04:00:00+00:00 Orr motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 772 amendment-passage
• 2019-05-15T04:00:00+00:00 Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 773 passage
• 2019-05-15T04:00:00+00:00 Engrossed
• 2019-05-15T04:00:00+00:00 Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Insurance reading-1, referral-committee
• 2019-05-22T04:00:00+00:00 Read for the second time and placed on the calendar reading-2
• 2019-05-29T04:00:00+00:00 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2019-05-29T04:00:00+00:00 Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 1143 passage
• 2019-05-30T04:00:00+00:00 Passed Second House passage
• 2019-05-30T04:00:00+00:00 Enrolled
• 2019-05-30T04:00:00+00:00 Signature Requested
• 2019-05-30T04:00:00+00:00 Delivered to Governor at 11:23 a.m. on May 30, 2019 executive-receipt
• 2019-05-30T04:00:00+00:00 Assigned Act No. 2019-457. executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/04f6f7fc-be60-4ecb-9ece-d406474c6f86. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).