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2002 SESSION

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HB 625 Practice of pharmacy.

Introduced by: Harvey B. Morgan | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)

Practice of pharmacy. Provides greater flexibility in the practice of pharmacy to be consistent with current health care practice trends while still providing sufficient safeguards for the integrity of controlled substances and patient safety. This bill changes the definition of the "pharmacy" to include any establishment in which drugs, medicines or medicinal chemicals are dispensed or offered for sale and, thereby, authorizes pharmacists to practice in locations other than permitted pharmacies, e.g., in a clinical oncology practice providing chemotherapy; softens the restrictions on the use of chart orders with multiple prescriptions to allow for such orders for home infusion and hospice patients; clarifies that a combination of manual and automated recordkeeping may be used, so long as the required prescription information is maintained and retrievable; and authorizes alternate delivery sites for prescriptions, such as "drop stations" where patients may pick up the drugs from a central location.

FULL TEXT

• 01/09/02  House: Presented & ordered printed, prefiled 01/08/02 022062856  pdf | impact statement
• 03/08/02  House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB625ER)  pdf | impact statement
• 04/04/02  Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0411)  pdf

HISTORY

• 01/09/02  House: Presented & ordered printed, prefiled 01/08/02 022062856
• 01/09/02  House: Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
• 01/21/02  House: Assigned to H. W. I. sub-committee: 1
• 01/24/02  House: Reported from H. W. I. (22-Y 0-N)
• 01/25/02  House: Read first time
• 01/28/02  House: Read second time and engrossed
• 01/29/02  House: Read third time and passed House (98-Y 0-N)
• 01/29/02  House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N)
• 01/29/02  House: Communicated to Senate
• 01/30/02  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
• 01/30/02  Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
• 02/21/02  Senate: Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N 1-A)
• 02/22/02  Senate: Const. reading disp., passed by for the day (40-Y 0-N)
• 02/22/02  Senate: VOTE: CONST. RDG. DISPENSED R (40-Y 0-N)
• 02/25/02  Senate: Read third time
• 02/25/02  Senate: Passed Senate (37-Y 0-N 1-A)
• 02/25/02  Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE (37-Y 0-N 1-A)
• 03/08/02  House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB625ER)
• 03/09/02  House: Enrolled
• 03/09/02  House: Signed by Speaker
• 03/12/02  Senate: Signed by President
• 04/02/02  Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 411 (effective - see bill)
• 04/04/02  Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0411)