Bill Text: AZ HB2627 | 2025 | Fifty-seventh Legislature 1st Regular | Engrossed
Bill Title: Pharmacies; emergency authority
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-27 - House Committee of the Whole action: Do Pass Amended [HB2627 Detail]
Download: Arizona-2025-HB2627-Engrossed.html
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House Engrossed
pharmacies; emergency authority |
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State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-seventh Legislature First Regular Session 2025
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HOUSE BILL 2627 |
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AN ACT
Amending section 32-1910, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to the ARizona state board of pharmacy.
(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Section 32-1910, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
32-1910. Emergencies; continued provision of services; rules
A. If a natural disaster or terrorist attack occurs and, as a consequence of the natural disaster or terrorist attack, a state of emergency is declared by the governor or by a county, city or town pursuant to its authority and the declared state of emergency results in individuals being unable to refill existing prescriptions, the board shall cooperate with this state and the county, city or town to ensure the provision of drugs, devices and professional services to the public.
B. If a natural disaster or terrorist attack occurs in another state and, as a consequence of the natural disaster or terrorist attack, a state of emergency is declared by the governor of that state and the declared state of emergency results in individuals being temporarily relocated to Arizona and unable to refill existing prescriptions, the board shall cooperate with this state to ensure the provision of drugs, devices and professional services to the relocated individuals.
C. When if a state of emergency has been declared pursuant to this section, a pharmacist may work in the affected county, city or town and may dispense a one-time onetime emergency refill prescription of up to a thirty-day supply of a prescribed medication if both of the following apply:
1. In the pharmacist's professional opinion the medication is essential to the maintenance of life or to the continuation of therapy.
2. The pharmacist makes a good faith effort to reduce the information to a written prescription marked "emergency prescription" and then files and maintains the prescription as required by law.
D. If the state of emergency declared pursuant to this section continues for at least twenty-one days after the pharmacist dispenses an emergency prescription pursuant to subsection C of this section, the pharmacist may dispense one additional emergency refill prescription of up to a thirty day thirty-day supply of the prescribed medication.
E. A pharmacist who is not licensed in this state, but who is currently licensed in another state, may dispense prescription medications in those affected counties, cities or towns in this state during the time that a declared state of emergency exists pursuant to this section if both of the following apply:
1. The pharmacist has proof of licensure in another state.
2. The pharmacist is engaged in a legitimate relief effort during the period of time an emergency has been declared pursuant to this section.
F. The board may adopt rules for the provision of
pharmaceutical care and drug and device delivery during a declared emergency
that is the consequence of a natural disaster or terrorist attack, including
the use of temporary or mobile pharmacy facilities and nonresident licensed
pharmacy professionals. The rules shall allow pharmacies that
are owned by a HEALTH system to compound and repackage prescription drugs on a nonpatient-specific basis for the patients of that health system during a declared A DECLARED emergency
that is the consequence of a natural disaster or terrorist attack.
G. A pharmacist's authority to dispense, compound or repackage prescriptions pursuant to this section ends when the declared state of emergency is terminated.
