Louisiana Senate rebuffs Landry on pharmacy benefits bill

Published: June 12, 2025

By: Anna Puleo, LSU Manship School News Service

BATON ROUGE–The 2025 legislative session ended Thursday with lawmakers passing a bill to tighten the rules on companies that work as middlemen managing pharmacy benefits. But the Senate let a more aggressive measure die despite vociferous support for it on social media from Gov. Jeff Landry and Donald Trump Jr. 

Now, Gov. Jeff Landry is threatening to call a special session to try to pass the tougher bill, which CVS says could force it to close some of its 120 drug stores in Louisiana. 

At the center of the dispute are outfits called pharmacy benefit managers, which manage prescription drug benefits for insurers, employers, and government programs like Medicaid. 

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