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2019 SESSION
HB 2559 Electronic transmission of certain prescriptions; exceptions.
Introduced by: Todd E. Pillion | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Electronic transmission of certain prescriptions; exceptions. Provides certain exceptions, effective July 1, 2020, to the requirement that any prescription for a controlled substance that contains an opioid be issued as an electronic prescription. The bill requires the licensing health regulatory board of a prescriber to grant such prescriber a waiver of the electronic prescription requirement for a period not to exceed one year due to demonstrated economic hardship, technological limitations that are not reasonably within the control of the prescriber, or other exceptional circumstances demonstrated by the prescriber. The bill provides that a dispenser is not required to verify whether one of the exceptions applies when he receives a non-electronic prescription for a controlled substance containing an opioid. The bill requires the Boards of Medicine, Nursing, Dentistry, and Optometry to promulgate regulations to implement the prescriber waivers. Finally, the bill requires the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to convene a work group to identify successes and challenges of the electronic prescription requirement and offer possible recommendations for increasing the electronic prescribing of controlled substances that contain an opioid and to report to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions and the Senate Committee on Education and Health by November 1, 2022.
FULL TEXT
- 01/09/19 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101805D pdf | impact statement
- 02/01/19 House: Printed as engrossed 19101805D-E pdf | impact statement
- 02/21/19 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2559ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/21/19 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0664) pdf
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
- House amendments adopted
HISTORY
- 01/09/19 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101805D
- 01/09/19 House: Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
- 01/16/19 House: Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #2
- 01/24/19 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (9-Y 0-N)
- 01/29/19 House: Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with amendments (22-Y 0-N)
- 01/31/19 House: Read first time
- 02/01/19 House: Read second time
- 02/01/19 House: Committee amendments agreed to
- 02/01/19 House: Engrossed by House as amended HB2559E
- 02/01/19 House: Printed as engrossed 19101805D-E
- 02/04/19 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/19 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (97-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/19 House: Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- 02/04/19 House: Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/19 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE #2 (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/19 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/05/19 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/08/19 Senate: Assigned Education sub: Health Professions
- 02/14/19 Senate: Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/15/19 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
- 02/18/19 Senate: Read third time
- 02/18/19 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/21/19 House: Enrolled
- 02/21/19 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2559ER)
- 02/21/19 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/21/19 Senate: Signed by President
- 02/28/19 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 28, 2019
- 02/28/19 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- 03/21/19 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 664 (effective 7/1/19)
- 03/21/19 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0664)