CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
SENATE BILL 5577
69TH LEGISLATURE
2025 REGULAR SESSION
Passed by the Senate February 28, 2025 Yeas 48 Nays 0
President of the Senate Passed by the House March 27, 2025 Yeas 94 Nays 0
Speaker of the House of Representatives | CERTIFICATE I, Sarah Bannister, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 5577 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.
Secretary Secretary |
Approved | FILED |
| Secretary of State State of Washington |
SENATE BILL 5577
Passed Legislature - 2025 Regular Session
State of Washington | 69th Legislature | 2025 Regular Session |
BySenators Liias, Braun, Harris, Cleveland, Dhingra, Hasegawa, Holy, Kauffman, Lovelett, Nobles, Pedersen, Riccelli, Shewmake, Short, Stanford, Valdez, and C. Wilson
Read first time 01/29/25.Referred to Committee on Health & Long-Term Care.
AN ACT Relating to medicaid coverage for HIV antiviral drugs; adding a new section to chapter
74.09 RCW; providing an effective date; and declaring an emergency.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. A new section is added to chapter
74.09 RCW to read as follows:
(1) The authority shall provide coverage under this chapter for all federal food and drug administration approved HIV antiviral drugs without prior authorization or step therapy. This coverage must be provided to apple health clients enrolled in both fee-for-service and managed care programs.
(2) Upon initiation or renewal of a contract with the authority to administer a medicaid managed care plan, a managed health care system shall provide coverage without prior authorization or step therapy for all federal food and drug administration approved HIV antiviral drugs.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and takes effect July 1, 2025.
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