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1996 SESSION
HB 696 Controlled substances; administration by practitioners.
Introduced by: Harvey B. Morgan | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY:
Drug control act. Provides that physicians' assistants and qualified emergency medical services personnel may administer drugs upon the order of a practitioner. The bill allows registered nurses or licensed practical nurses under the supervision of a registered nurse to administer vaccines to adults for immunization when a practitioner with prescriptive authority is not present. The practitioner must have authorized the administration and administration must be pursuant to a protocol approved by the Board of Nursing. Currently unlicensed persons may complete a training program and administer drugs in certain state-licensed and state-operated facilities. This bill requires such persons to act in accordance with regulations promulgated by the Board of Pharmacy relating to security and record keeping and adds "any facility authorized or operated by a state or local government whose primary purpose is not to provide health care services" to the list of facilities. This is intended to capture local jails and state correctional facilities and to add a broad category so that the Code will not have to be amended to capture individual facilities. The bill also provides that there is no prohibition against the administration of normally self-administered oral or topical drugs by unlicensed individuals to a person in his private residence. In order to increase the accountability in prescription orders transmitted by telephone, the bill defines who a prescriber can authorize to be his agent for the purpose of transmitting such prescriptions to a pharmacy.
FULL TEXT
- 01/22/96 House: Presented & ordered printed 964857813 pdf
- 03/11/96 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB696ER) pdf
- 04/04/96 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0406) pdf
HISTORY
- 01/22/96 House: Presented & ordered printed 964857813
- 01/22/96 House: Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
- 01/23/96 House: Assigned to H. W. I. sub-committee: 1
- 02/08/96 House: Reported from H. W. I. (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/09/96 House: Read first time
- 02/10/96 House: Read second time and engrossed
- 02/12/96 House: Read third time and passed House (Block Vote) (100-Y 0-N)
- 02/12/96 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (100-Y 0-N)
- 02/12/96 House: Communicated to Senate
- 02/13/96 Senate: Read first time
- 02/13/96 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/20/96 Senate: Assigned to Ed. & Health sub-committee: Health Professions
- 02/22/96 Senate: Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/23/96 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/23/96 Senate: VOTE: CONST. READING DISPENSED (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/26/96 Senate: Read third time
- 02/26/96 Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/26/96 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE (39-Y 0-N)
- 03/11/96 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB696ER)
- 03/15/96 House: Enrolled
- 03/16/96 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/18/96 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/31/96 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 406 (effective 7/1/96)
- 04/04/96 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0406)