CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                  SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5465

                        52nd Legislature

                      1992 Regular Session

Passed by the Senate January 27, 1992   Yeas 44   Nays 0 President of the Senate Passed by the House March 3, 1992   Yeas 95   Nays 1

CERTIFICATE I, Gordon Golob, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5465 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

Speaker of the        House of Representatives

Secretary

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Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                        State of Washington

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                            SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5465

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                     Passed Legislature - 1992 Regular Session

State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1991 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Health & Long‑Term Care (originally sponsored by Senators West, Moore, Conner, McDonald, Newhouse, Nelson, Bluechel, Johnson, Niemi, Wojahn and von Reichbauer).

Read first time February 18, 1991.Concerning the ratio of pharmacy assistants.

     AN ACT Relating to the required pharmacy assistant ratio; and amending RCW 18.64A.040.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

     Sec. 1.  RCW 18.64A.040 and 1977 ex.s. c 101 s 4 are each amended to read as follows:

     (1) A pharmacy assistant shall practice pharmacy in this state only after authorization by the board and only to the extent permitted by the board in accordance with this chapter.

     (2) A pharmacist shall be assisted by a pharmacy assistant in the practice of pharmacy in this state only after authorization by the board and only to the extent permitted by the board in accordance with this chapter:  PROVIDED, That no pharmacist may supervise more than one person performing level A pharmacy assistant duties and functions:  PROVIDED FURTHER, That in pharmacies operating in connection with facilities licensed pursuant to chapter((s)) 70.41 ((or)), 71.12, 71A.20, or 74.42 RCW, whether or not situated within the said facility which shall be physically separated from any area of a pharmacy where dispensing of prescriptions to the general public occurs, the ratio of pharmacists to persons performing level A pharmacy assistant duties and functions shall be as follows:  in the preparation of medicine or other materials used by patients within the facility, one pharmacist supervising no more than three persons performing level A pharmacy assistant duties and functions; in the preparation of medicine or other materials dispensed to persons not patients within the facility, one pharmacist supervising not more than one person performing level A pharmacy assistant duties and functions.