BILL REQ. #:  S-3952.2 

Read first time 02/26/14.   Referred to Committee on Health Care .

     AN ACT Relating to refilling eye drop prescriptions; and adding a new section to chapter 18.64 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1   A new section is added to chapter 18.64 RCW to read as follows:
     A pharmacist is authorized, without consulting a physician or obtaining a new prescription or refill from a physician, to provide for one early refill of a prescription for eye drops to treat glaucoma if all of the following criteria are met:
     (1) The refill is requested by a patient less than thirty days after the later of:
     (a) The date the original prescription was dispensed to the patient; or
     (b) The date that the last refill of the prescription was dispensed to the patient;
     (2) The prescriber indicates on the original prescription that a specific number of refills will be needed;
     (3) The refill does not exceed the number of refills that the prescriber indicated under subsection (2) of this section;
     (4) The prescription has not been refilled more than once during the thirty-day period prior to the request for an early refill.