Updates to the Status of the Gift Law Legislation

Latest Version of MN Pharmacecitical Gifting Legislation: HF 1641 (Unofficial Engrossment)

Testimony at Joint Interim Hearing: January 25, 2010

House Commerce and Labor Committee (Rep Joe Atkins, chair) and Senate Business, Industry & Jobs Committee (Senator Jim Metzen, Chair) on Monday, January 25, 2010.

Peter Wyckoff, Director of the Minnesota Prescription Coalition
Chris McCoy, MD
Allan Coukell, Director, Pew Prescription Project
Kim Witzcak

Testimony given at the February 16, 2010 House Hearing

House Health and Human Services Oversight Committee (Rep. Paul Thissen, Chair)

Peter Wyckoff, Director of the Minnesota Prescription Coalition
Chris McCoy, MD
Craig Stephens, Pharmacist

Background Materials:
Why small Gifts Matter
Summary of Gift Ban as Introduced
Mn Gift Ban Sumary as Introduced

Pew Charitble Trusts Testimony (at 1/25/10 Interim Hearing)

Supplemental Pew Charitable Trusts Background on Massachusett's Gifting Legislation (2009)