BETTER BUSINESS PRACTICES ACT
1. No employer in the Southern Region shall be permitted to ask any current or potential worker about his or her vaccination status, nor shall such employer be permitted to retaliate against any current or potential worker for declining to offer or provide such information.
2. No court in the Southern Region shall enforce any nondisclosure or nondisparagement clause concerning sexual misconduct if such clause was entered into before the dispute arises.
3. Any Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) in the Southern Region shall be required to publicly disclose complaints made against the PBM.
4. Any company that markets or sells prescription drugs in the Southern Region shall be required to publicly disclose any price increase no less than thirty (30) days prior to such increase along with an explanation for such price increase.
5. No company that markets or sells prescription drugs in the Southern Region shall be permitted to enter into any agreement with a doctor, pharmacist, PBM, or insurance company prohibiting such person from mentioning lower-cost generic drugs.
6. The Prescription Drug Affordability Board is hereby established. The Governor shall appoint the members of the Board. The Board shall meet in open session at least four (4) times annually. Members of the Board shall disclose any conflicts of interest. The Board shall identify prescription, generic, and other drugs, that are offered for sale in the South and, at the Board's discretion, conduct an affordability review of any prescription drug product.
7. No State shall impose restrictions on the hiring of employees in bars, restaurants, or liquor stores on the basis of prior criminal conviction, provided nothing in this provision shall act as a waiver on restrictions imposed by a sex offender registry, animal abuse registry, or terrorism registry.
8. This act shall take effect immediately.
