HOUSE BILL REPORT

HB 2524

BYRepresentatives 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 REPORTED BY COMMITTEE ON HEALTH CARE JANUARY 30, 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:

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

The Interdepartmental Coordinating Committee is repealed.

SUBSTITUTE BILL COMPARED TO ORIGINAL:  The technical change in the regulatory nomenclature of pharmacist assistants is deleted.  Level A pharmacist assistants would have been licensed, and level B pharmacist assistants would have been registered.  Pharmacist assistants are currently certified.

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.