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HOUSE BILL 2623
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AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE
Passed Legislature - 1996 Regular Session
State of Washington 54th Legislature 1996
Regular Session
By
Read first time 01/15/96. Referred to Committee
on Health Care.
Requiring the use of single name
identifiers for persons obtaining controlled substances.
AN ACT Relating to
requiring the use of single name identifiers for persons obtaining controlled
substances; and amending RCW 69.50.403.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF
WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 69.50.403 and 1993 c
187 s 21 are each amended to read as follows:
(a) It is unlawful for
any person knowingly or intentionally:
(1) To distribute as a
registrant a controlled substance classified in Schedules I or II, except
pursuant to an order form as required by RCW 69.50.307;
(2) To use in the
course of the manufacture, distribution, or dispensing of a controlled
substance, or to use for the purpose of acquiring or obtaining a controlled
substance, a registration number which is fictitious, revoked, suspended, or
issued to another person;
(3) To obtain or
attempt to obtain a controlled substance, or procure or attempt to procure the
administration of a controlled substance, (i) by fraud, deceit,
misrepresentation, or subterfuge; or (ii) by forgery or alteration of a
prescription or any written order; or (iii) by the concealment of material
fact; or (iv) by the use of a false name or the giving of a false address.
(4) To falsely assume
the title of, or represent herself or himself to be, a manufacturer,
wholesaler, pharmacist, physician, dentist, veterinarian, or other authorized
person for the purpose of obtaining a controlled substance.
(5) To make or utter
any false or forged prescription or false or forged written order.
(6) To affix any false
or forged label to a package or receptacle containing controlled substances.
(7) To furnish false or
fraudulent material information in, or omit any material information from, any
application, report, or other document required to be kept or filed under this
chapter, or any record required to be kept by this chapter; or
(8) To possess a false
or fraudulent prescription with intent to obtain a controlled substance.
(9) To attempt to
illegally obtain controlled substances by providing more than one name to a
practitioner when obtaining a prescription for a controlled substance. If a
person's name is legally changed during the time period that he or she is
receiving health care from a practitioner, the person shall inform all
providers of care so that the medical and pharmacy records for the person may
be filed under a single name identifier.
(b) Information
communicated to a practitioner in an effort unlawfully to procure a controlled
substance or unlawfully to procure the administration of such substance, shall
not be deemed a privileged communication.
(c) A
person who violates this section is guilty of a crime and upon conviction may
be imprisoned for not more than two years, or fined not more than two thousand
dollars, or both.
