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S3569 • 2026

Prohibits pharmacy benefits managers from requiring covered persons to use mail service pharmacies.

Prohibits pharmacy benefits managers from requiring covered persons to use mail service pharmacies.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Greenstein, Linda R.
Last action
2026-02-19
Official status
Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Commerce Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Prohibits pharmacy benefits managers from requiring covered persons to use mail service pharmacies.

Prohibits pharmacy benefits managers from requiring covered persons to use mail service pharmacies.

What This Bill Does

  • Prohibits pharmacy benefits managers from requiring covered persons to use mail service pharmacies.
  • Topic: Commerce Fiscal note: This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

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Bill History

  1. 2026-02-19 New Jersey Legislature

    Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Commerce Committee

Official Summary Text

Prohibits pharmacy benefits managers from requiring covered persons to use mail service pharmacies.
Topic:
Commerce
Fiscal note:
This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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S3569

SENATE, No. 3569

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 19, 2026

Sponsored by:

Senator� LINDA R. GREENSTEIN

District 14 (Mercer and Middlesex)

SYNOPSIS

���� Prohibits pharmacy benefits managers from requiring
covered persons to use mail service pharmacies.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� As introduced.

��

An Act

concerning pharmacy benefits managers and mail
service pharmacies and supplementing P.L.2015, c.179
(C.17B:27F-1 et seq.).

����
Be It
Enacted
by the Senate and General Assembly of
the State of New Jersey:

���� 1.��� A pharmacy benefits
manager, in connection with any contract or arrangement with a private health
insurer, prescription benefit plan, or the State Health Benefits Program or
School Employees' Health Benefits Program, shall neither require a covered
person to use a mail service pharmacy nor automatically enroll a covered person
in a mail service pharmacy program.� A pharmacy benefits manager may provide
benefits to a covered person through a mail service pharmacy, provided that the
covered person is given the option to use the mail service pharmacy or a
non-mail service pharmacy, and the covered person consents in writing to the
use of the mail service pharmacy.

���� 2.��� This act shall take
effect on January 1, 2027.

STATEMENT

���� This bill prohibits pharmacy
benefits managers from requiring covered persons to use mail service
pharmacies.� Specifically, the bill provides that pharmacy benefits managers, in
connection with any contract or arrangement with a private health insurer,
prescription benefit plan, or the State Health Benefits Program or School
Employees' Health Benefits Program, may neither require covered persons to use
a mail service pharmacy nor automatically enroll covered persons in a mail
service pharmacy program.� The bill provides that pharmacy benefits managers
may provide benefits to covered persons through mail service pharmacies,
provided that the covered persons are given the option to use a mail service
pharmacy or a non-mail service pharmacy, and the covered persons consent in
writing to the use of the mail service pharmacy.

���� It has come to the attention
of the sponsor that certain pharmacy benefits managers in New Jersey
automatically enroll covered persons in a mail service pharmacy program without
the covered persons� consent.� This bill is intended to stop these automatic
enrollments and to support the right of covered persons to use a non-mail
service pharmacy if they so choose.