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2005 SESSION

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Senate Committee on Education and Health
Subcommittee Health Professions

Martin, Lambert, Lucas, Mims

Clerk: Jocelyn Lance
Date of Meeting: January 27, 2005
Time and Place: 1/2 hr after Session, 3 East Conf. Rm, General Assembly Building

S.B. 1036 Controlled substances; requires pedigree of normal distribution chain.

Patron: Ruff

Prescription drugs; pedigree of normal distribution chain required.  Requires any person engaged in the wholesale distribution of a controlled substance to provide a paper or electronic pedigree identifying each sale, trade, or transfer of a controlled substance when it leaves the normal distribution channel and is sold, traded, or transferred to any other person. Such pedigree shall include all necessary identifying information concerning each sale in the chain of distribution of the product from the manufacturer through acquisition and sale by any wholesale distributor or repackager until final sale to a pharmacy or other person dispensing or administering the drug. The bill also includes the following restrictions on transactions of controlled substances: (i) in any calendar month a wholesale distributor must sell, distribute, or transfer at least 95 percent of its total amount of controlled substances to a pharmacy or other person dispensing or administering the controlled substance; (ii) prior to selling a controlled substance to any person, a manufacturer or wholesale distributor must verify that the person is legally authorized to receive such substances; and (iii) a wholesale distributor may not purchase a controlled substance from a pharmacy unless it was originally purchased by the pharmacy from the wholesale distributor. Under no circumstances may a wholesale distributor receive a greater quantity of a controlled substance from a pharmacy than was originally sold by the distributor to the pharmacy or pay a pharmacy more for any controlled substance than the pharmacy originally paid the distributor.

S.B. 1127 Dentists and dental hygienists; licenusure.

Patron: Houck

Health; licensure of dentists by credentials and volunteer licenses for retired dentists and dental hygienists.  Authorizes the Board of Dentistry to grant, without an additional examination, a license to practice dentistry to persons licensed to practice dentistry in another state if certain conditions, including the completion of a clinical licensing examination substantially equivalent to the one required of Virginia licensees, are met.  However, such a license shall be automatically revoked if (i) the licensee does not practice dentistry solely within the Commonwealth within two years of the license being granted or (ii) if having held the license for two years, the licensee ceases to actively practice dentistry solely within the Commonwealth. The bill further authorizes the Board to issue a volunteer license to retired dentists or dental hygienists. Such volunteer licensees may practice only in certain types of facilities, and may serve as a supervising dentist in an accredited dental hygiene school. The Board must promulgate emergency regulations.

S.B. 1326 Wholesale drug distributors.

Patron: Ruff

Wholesale drug distributors.  Penalty