CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5268
Chapter 85, Laws of 2015
64th Legislature
2015 Regular Session
PHARMACISTS--EYE DROP REFILLS
EFFECTIVE DATE: 7/24/2015
SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5268
Passed Legislature - 2015 Regular Session
State of Washington
64th Legislature
2015 Regular Session
By Senate Health Care (originally sponsored by Senators Parlette, Kohl-Welles, Hatfield, Angel, and Fraser)
READ FIRST TIME 01/30/15.
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 topical ophthalmic products if all of the following criteria are met:
(1) The refill is requested by a patient at or after seventy percent of the predicted days of use 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; and
(3) The refill does not exceed the number of refills that the prescriber indicated under subsection (2) of this section.
Passed by the Senate February 4, 2015.
Passed by the House April 13, 2015.
Approved by the Governor April 24, 2015.
Filed in Office of Secretary of State April 25, 2015.