HB 4357 Summary

• Prohibits manufacturers and wholesale distributors from offering or giving gifts to prescribers during sales, promotional, or marketing activities for prescription drugs.

• Defines "gift" as any payment, advance, service, or thing of value exceeding $63.00 in any one-month period, with specific exceptions for drug samples, educational materials, conference sponsorships, consulting compensation, speaker fees, continuing education funding, modest meals, and patient educational items.

• Requires manufacturers and wholesale distributors to provide the board of pharmacy with a list of employees engaged in selling, promoting, or marketing prescription drugs for human use to prescribers.

• Mandates that sales and marketing employees provide prescribers with written wholesale acquisition cost information, avoid deceptive or misleading marketing, and obtain patient consent before attending patient examinations.

• Takes effect only if House Bill No. 4358 of the 101st Legislature is enacted into law.