HOUSE BILL REPORT

SSB 6402

BYSenate Committee on Health & Long-Term Care (originally sponsored by Senators West, Niemi and Conner; by request of Department of Health)

Continuing the board of pharmacy and modifying licensures.

House Committe on Health Care

Majority Report:  Do pass.  (9)

      Signed by Representatives Braddock, Chair; Day, Vice Chair; Brooks, Ranking Republican Member; Cantwell, Morris, Prentice, D. Sommers, Vekich and Wolfe.

House Staff:John Welsh (786-7133)

AS REPORTED BY COMMITTEE ON HEALTH CARE FEBRUARY 22, 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, as well as the responsibility for coordinating statewide drug abuse programs to the governor's office.

SUMMARY:

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

The Interdepartmental Coordinating Committee is repealed along with the responsibility for coordinating statewide drug abuse programs.

Fiscal Note:      Available.

House Committee ‑ Testified For:    No one.

House Committee - Testified Against:      No one.

House Committee - Testimony For:    None.

House Committee - Testimony Against:      None.