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H.R.5142
Sponsor: Rep Stark, Fortney Pete(introduced 9/7/2000)
Latest Major Action: 10/19/2000 Referred to House subcommittee. Latest Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.
Title: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide under contract with a Medicare carrier for an official website through which Medicare beneficiaries and others can obtain Internet access to safe and competitively priced domestic and international prescription drugs, and for other purposes.
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9/7/2000:
Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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.
9/7/2000:
Referred to House Commerce
10/19/2000:
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.
9/7/2000:
Referred to House Ways and Means
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SUMMARY AS OF:
9/7/2000--Introduced.

Medicare Prescription Drug Internet Access and Safe Importation Act of 2000 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to enter into a contract arrangement with a qualified carrier under which the carrier will provide for the operation of an Internet site through which Medicare beneficiaries, physicians, and pharmacies serving Medicare beneficiaries can identify one or more Internet pharmacies through which such individuals and pharmacies may directly purchase safe and effective domestic and international prescription drugs.

Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to provide for the promulgation of criteria for Internet pharmacies eligible to participate with a Medicare carrier in accordance with this Act.