A law working its way through Tennessee’s legislature could serve the interests of the pharmacy industry-linked GOP lawmakers sponsoring it by reducing competition for them and their donors. 

Tennessee Senate Bill 2040, according to CVS, would force it to close every pharmacy it maintains in the Volunteer State. Some of the lawmakers pushing the bill own pharmacies that could potentially benefit from the resulting dearth of competition, whereas others supporting the law are funded by business interests that themselves could gain from knocking out the state’s CVS locations.