CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

SENATE BILL 6627

Chapter 83, Laws of 2010

61st Legislature
2010 Regular Session



ADVANCE REGISTERED NURSE PRACTITIONERS--OUT-OF-STATE--PRESCRIPTIONS



EFFECTIVE DATE: 06/10/10

Passed by the Senate February 11, 2010
  YEAS 46   NAYS 0

BRAD OWEN
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President of the Senate
Passed by the House March 2, 2010
  YEAS 96   NAYS 0

FRANK CHOPP
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Speaker of the House of Representatives


 
CERTIFICATE

I, Thomas Hoemann, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 6627 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

THOMAS HOEMANN
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Secretary
Approved March 17, 2010, 1:52 p.m.








CHRISTINE GREGOIRE
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Governor of the State of Washington
 
FILED
March 17, 2010







Secretary of State
State of Washington


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SENATE BILL 6627
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Passed Legislature - 2010 Regular Session
State of Washington61st Legislature2010 Regular Session

By Senators Marr, Pflug, Keiser, Benton, Franklin, Fairley, Schoesler, Pridemore, Roach, and Parlette

Read first time 01/19/10.   Referred to Committee on Health & Long-Term Care.



     AN ACT Relating to authorizing Washington pharmacies to fill prescriptions written by advanced registered nurse practitioners in other states or in certain provinces of Canada; and reenacting and amending RCW 69.41.030.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

Sec. 1   RCW 69.41.030 and 2003 c 142 s 3 and 2003 c 53 s 323 are each reenacted and amended to read as follows:
     (1) It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, deliver, or possess any legend drug except upon the order or prescription of a physician under chapter 18.71 RCW, an osteopathic physician and surgeon under chapter 18.57 RCW, an optometrist licensed under chapter 18.53 RCW who is certified by the optometry board under RCW 18.53.010, a dentist under chapter 18.32 RCW, a podiatric physician and surgeon under chapter 18.22 RCW, a veterinarian under chapter 18.92 RCW, a commissioned medical or dental officer in the United States armed forces or public health service in the discharge of his or her official duties, a duly licensed physician or dentist employed by the veterans administration in the discharge of his or her official duties, a registered nurse or advanced registered nurse practitioner under chapter 18.79 RCW when authorized by the nursing care quality assurance commission, an osteopathic physician assistant under chapter 18.57A RCW when authorized by the board of osteopathic medicine and surgery, a physician assistant under chapter 18.71A RCW when authorized by the medical quality assurance commission, or any of the following professionals in any province of Canada that shares a common border with the state of Washington or in any state of the United States: A physician licensed to practice medicine and surgery or a physician licensed to practice osteopathic medicine and surgery, a dentist licensed to practice dentistry, a podiatric physician and surgeon licensed to practice podiatric medicine and surgery, a licensed advanced registered nurse practitioner, or a veterinarian licensed to practice veterinary medicine((, in any province of Canada which shares a common border with the state of Washington or in any state of the United States)): PROVIDED, HOWEVER, That the above provisions shall not apply to sale, delivery, or possession by drug wholesalers or drug manufacturers, or their agents or employees, or to any practitioner acting within the scope of his or her license, or to a common or contract carrier or warehouseman, or any employee thereof, whose possession of any legend drug is in the usual course of business or employment: PROVIDED FURTHER, That nothing in this chapter or chapter 18.64 RCW shall prevent a family planning clinic that is under contract with the department of social and health services from selling, delivering, possessing, and dispensing commercially prepackaged oral contraceptives prescribed by authorized, licensed health care practitioners.
     (2)(a) A violation of this section involving the sale, delivery, or possession with intent to sell or deliver is a class B felony punishable according to chapter 9A.20 RCW.
     (b) A violation of this section involving possession is a misdemeanor.


         Passed by the Senate February 11, 2010.
         Passed by the House March 2, 2010.
         Approved by the Governor March 17, 2010.
         Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 17, 2010.