FINAL BILL REPORT

HB 1478

                                  C 352 L 89

BYRepresentatives Braddock, Brooks and D. Sommers; by request of  Board of Pharmacy

Regulating the board of pharmacy.

House Committe on Health Care

Senate Committee on Health Care & Corrections

SYNOPSIS AS ENACTED

BACKGROUND:

Shopkeepers must be licensed by the Board of Pharmacy to sell non-prescription drugs, except those selling 15 or less.

Sales records of prescription drugs must be preserved by pharmacies for five years and are subject to inspection by law enforcement officers authorized to enforce substance abuse violations.

An applicant for licensure as a pharmacist must be a citizen, an alien in a pharmacy education graduate program, or a resident alien.

Sellers of legend (prescription) drugs are not required to maintain records of the receipt and disposition of these drugs.  The Board of Pharmacy has authority to revoke or suspend a license for a violation of state drug laws, but not for violations of federal law, nor for specific convictions of a felony.

Records of a drug purchase or distribution of a drug by pharmaceutical manufacturers, pharmacies, and prescribing practitioners must be maintained for controlled substances, but not for legend drugs.

Information obtained by the Board of Pharmacy from pharmaceutical manufacturers, pharmacies, or practitioners relative to legend drug purchases or dispensing is not confidential.

SUMMARY:

The exemption from registration for shopkeepers selling 15 or less non-prescription drugs is repealed.

Records of prescription drug sales must be preserved for at least two years rather than five years.  These records must be open for inspection by law enforcement officers authorized to enforce substance abuse violations.

Citizenship is deleted as a requirement for applicants of licensure as a pharmacist.  The Board of Pharmacy may revoke or suspend a license for a violation of federal laws or for a conviction of a felony.

Pharmaceutical manufacturers, pharmacies, and practitioners must maintain, for two years, invoices or records of the purchase or distribution of legend drugs that are subject to board inspection, and willful failure to maintain these records is a felony.

Information obtained by the Board of Pharmacy from manufacturers, pharmacies, and practitioners is declared confidential and is exempted from disclosure under the Public Disclosure Act.

VOTES ON FINAL PASSAGE:

      House 93   0

      Senate    45     0 (Senate amended)

      House             (House refused to concur)

Conference Committee

      Senate    47     0

      House 96   0

EFFECTIVE:July 23, 1989