CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5465
Chapter
40, Laws of 1992
52nd
Legislature
1992
Regular Session
PHARMACY ASSISTANT TO SUPERVISOR RATIO‑-REVISIONS
EFFECTIVE
DATE: 6/11/92
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Passed by the Senate January 27,
1992
Yeas 44 Nays 0
 JOEL PRITCHARD
President of the Senate
Passed by the House March 3,
1992
Yeas 95 Nays 1
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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.
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 JOE KING
Speaker of the
House of Representatives
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 GORDON A. GOLOB
Secretary
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Approved March 26, 1992 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.
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FILED
March 26, 1992 -
11:27 a.m.
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BOOTH GARDNER
Governor of the State of Washington
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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
Read
first time February 18, 1991.
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.
Passed the Senate January 27, 1992.
Passed the House March 3, 1992.
Approved by the Governor March
26, 1992.
Filed
in Office of Secretary of State March 26, 1992.