Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act (H.R. 3; 117th Congress)
117th CONGRESS
1st Session
H.R. 3
To establish a fair price negotiation program, protect the Medicare program from excessive price increases, and establish an out-of-pocket maximum for Medicare part D enrollees, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
April 22, 2021
Mr. Pallone (for himself, Mr. Neal, and Mr. Scott of Virginia) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and Labor, Oversight and Reform, and Veterans' Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
A BILL
To establish a fair price negotiation program, protect the Medicare program from excessive price increases, and establish an out-of-pocket maximum for Medicare part D enrollees, and for other purposes.
- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.
[edit]- (a) Short Title.—This Act may be cited as the “Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act”.
- (b) Table Of Contents.—The table of contents is as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.