Senate votes 30-2 to approval oral chemotherapy bill---WHOW
Look at Darlings comment. What a puke. If the Assembly fails to pass this bill, it will be until Jan 2015 before it can be taken up again per sen Jennifer Shilling.
From comments on the floor, it looks like the Assembly will be in session Thursday. Lets all call or email and pass this around. Lets put pressure on the Assembly.
The media, I have to say put pressure on the Senate--I will give them credit for that.
Wonder who did not vote?? 33 Senators aren't there?
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Tuesday, March 18, 2014
1:05 PM
Senate votes 30-2 to approval oral chemotherapy bill
The state Senate voted 30-2 to approve legislation requiring health insurers to treat oral chemotherapy the same as intravenous treatments in a sharp reversal after Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald had previously taken steps to bottle up the bill.
GOP Sen. Alberta Darling, the co-author of SB 300, said numerous people have approached her in recent days asking why the legislation was put on hold considering its bipartisan support. She thanked Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, for allowing the vote. Last week, he used a phantom hearing to prevent Dems from forcing a floor vote on the bill, and scrutiny of the move has ratcheted up in recent days.......
Several Dems spoke on the floor to put pressure on the Assembly to also take up the legislation, and Sen. Bob Jauch, D-Poplar, warned the Senate's vote would be hollow and shallow if the Assembly failed to pass the bill before adjourning. The Assembly was in session Tuesday and planned to be back on the floor Thursday.
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Darling, R-River Hills, downplayed the role the Assembly's actions played in the significance of the Senate vote, insisting it was still a meaningful step regardless of what happens.............
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