HOUSE BILL REPORT

SHB 2524

BYHouse Committee on Health Care (originally sponsored by Representatives Leonard, Day, Braddock, Crane and Dellwo; by request of Department of Health)

Continuing the board of pharmacy and modifying licensures.

House Committe on Health Care

Majority Report:  The substitute bill be substituted therefor and the substitute bill do pass.  (10)

      Signed by Representatives Braddock, Chair; Day, Vice Chair; Cantwell, Chandler, Morris, Prentice, D. Sommers, Sprenkle, Vekich and Wolfe.

House Staff:John Welsh (786-7133)

AS PASSED HOUSE FEBRUARY 9, 1990

BACKGROUND:

A sunset review of the Board of Pharmacy, conducted by the Legislative Budget Committee in 1989, recommended that the agency be continued.

The Legislative Budget Committee also recommended that the Interdepartmental Coordinating Committee on Drug Misuse, Diversion, and Abuse be abolished.

SUMMARY:

The powers and duties of the State Board of Pharmacy are reauthorized.

The Interdepartmental Coordinating Committee is repealed.

Fiscal Note:      Available.

House Committee ‑ Testified For:    Don Williams, State Board of Pharmacy; Lars Hennum, Pharmacists of Washington

House Committee - Testified Against:      No one.

House Committee - Testimony For:    The Legislative Budget Committee, in its sunset review of the Board of Pharmacy, recommended its continuation.  The board licenses pharmacists as well as regulates the legal distribution of drugs, protecting the public health and safety.

House Committee - Testimony Against:      None.