Employee-Choice Pharmacy Bills Die in Ala., Ariz. and Md.

By Joey BerlinSouthern Bureau ChiefIt’s been a bad legislative year for patient pharmacy choice bills on a few different fronts – including Alabama, whose legislature will apparently take up the issue again in 2015.The state adjourned this year’s session on April 3 without taking action on House Bill 61. Republican Rep. Ronald Johnson, a pharmacist, prefiled the bill before the session started, but the measure never made it out of the Commerce and Small Business Committee. The bill would’ve added one line to Section 25-5-77 of Alabama’s code: “An injured emp...