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SENATE BILL 5109
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State of Washington 52nd Legislature 1991 Regular Session
By Senators West, Amondson, Moore, Stratton, McCaslin and L. Kreidler.
Read first time January 21, 1991. Referred to Committee on Health & Long‑Term Care.
AN ACT Relating to prescribing prescription drugs; amending RCW 69.41.030; and declaring an emergency.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 69.41.030 and 1990 c 219 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:
It
shall be unlawful for any person to sell, deliver, or possess any legend drug
except upon the order or prescription of a physician under chapter 18.71 RCW,
an osteopathic physician or an osteopathic physician and surgeon under chapter
18.57 RCW, a dentist under chapter 18.32 RCW, a ((podiatrist)) podiatric
physician and surgeon under chapter 18.22 RCW, a veterinarian under chapter
18.92 RCW, a commissioned medical or dental officer in the United States armed
forces, marine hospital service, or public health service in the discharge of
his official duties, a duly licensed physician or dentist employed by the
veterans administration in the discharge of his official duties, a registered
nurse under chapter 18.88 RCW when authorized by the board of nursing, an
osteopathic physician's assistant under chapter 18.57A RCW when authorized by
the committee of osteopathic examiners, a physician's assistant under chapter
18.71A RCW when authorized by the board of medical examiners, a physician
licensed to practice medicine and surgery or a physician licensed to practice
osteopathy and surgery, a dentist licensed to practice dentistry, a podiatrist
licensed to practice podiatry, or a veterinarian licensed to practice
veterinary medicine, in any province of Canada which shares a common border
with the state of Washington or in any state of the United States: PROVIDED,
HOWEVER, That the above provisions shall not apply to sale, delivery, or
possession by drug wholesalers or drug manufacturers, or their agents or
employees, or to any practitioner acting within the scope of his license, or to
a common or contract carrier or warehouseman, or any employee thereof, whose
possession of any legend drug is in the usual course of business or
employment: PROVIDED FURTHER, That nothing in this chapter or chapter 18.64
RCW shall prevent a family planning clinic that is under contract with the
department of social and health services from selling, delivering, possessing,
and dispensing commercially prepackaged oral contraceptives prescribed by
authorized, licensed health care practitioners((: PROVIDED FURTHER, That it
shall be unlawful to fill a prescription written by an authorized prescriber
who is not licensed in this state if more than six months has passed since the
date of the issuance of the original prescription)).
NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and shall take effect immediately.