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New York · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

S 5939: Relates to payments by a pharmacy benefit manager to participating pharmacies

Passed both chambers Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

S 5939 is a bill introduced in the New York Senate on March 4, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Relates to payments by a pharmacy benefit manager to participating pharmacies. Primary sponsor: James Skoufis (Democratic). It lists 19 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (June 5, 2026): RETURNED TO SENATE.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Requires a pharmacy benefit manager to pay a participating pharmacy at minimum at the national average drug acquisition cost (NADAC) rate, or at the pharmacy acquisition cost rate if greater or there is not a NADAC rate, plus a professional dispensing fee that is at minimum the professional dispensing fee paid under the state medical assistance program.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 9 · Democratic/Working Families 7 · Republican/Conservative 4

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
James SkoufisPrimary sponsorDemocraticSenate42
Joe AddabboCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate15
Siela BynoeCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate6
Jeremy CooneyCo-sponsorDemocratic/Working FamiliesSenate56
Pat FahyCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate46
Nathalia FernándezCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate34
Patrick GallivanCo-sponsorRepublican/ConservativeSenate60
Joe GriffoCo-sponsorRepublican/ConservativeSenate53
Michelle HincheyCo-sponsorDemocratic/Working FamiliesSenate41
Robert JacksonCo-sponsorDemocratic/Working FamiliesSenate31
John LiuCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate16
Jack MartinsCo-sponsorRepublican/ConservativeSenate7
Shelley MayerCo-sponsorDemocratic/Working FamiliesSenate37
Steve RhoadsCo-sponsorRepublican/ConservativeSenate5
Gustavo RiveraCo-sponsorDemocratic/Working FamiliesSenate33
Chris RyanCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate50
Julia SalazarCo-sponsorDemocratic/Working FamiliesSenate18
Jessica Scarcella-SpantonCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate23
Toby StaviskyCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate11
Lea WebbCo-sponsorDemocratic/Working FamiliesSenate52

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. RETURNED TO SENATE
  2. PASSED ASSEMBLY
  3. ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.483
  4. SUBSTITUTED FOR A5882C
  5. REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS
  6. RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
  7. REPASSED SENATE
  8. AMENDED ON THIRD READING 5939C
  9. VOTE RECONSIDERED - RESTORED TO THIRD READING
  10. RETURNED TO SENATE
  11. RECALLED FROM ASSEMBLY
  12. REFERRED TO INSURANCE

Showing 12 most recent of 30 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source