Bill Text: CA AB2741 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Prescription drugs: opioid medications: minors.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-06-18 - In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [AB2741 Detail]
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION
| Assembly Bill | No. 2741 |
| Introduced by Assembly Member Burke (Coauthors: Assembly Members Dahle and Cunningham) |
February 16, 2018 |
An act to add Article 10.8 (commencing with Section 745) to Chapter 1 of Division 2 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to healing arts.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2741, as amended, Burke.
Prescription drugs: opioid medications: minors.
Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of health care practitioners by various boards and requires prescription drugs to be ordered and dispensed in accordance with the Pharmacy Law. Existing law makes repeated acts of clearly excessive prescribing or administering of drugs or treatment unprofessional conduct for certain health care practitioners.
This bill would would, with certain exceptions, prohibit a prescriber, as defined, from prescribing more than a 5-day supply of opioid medication to a minor unless the prescription is for specified uses. The bill would also require a prescriber to take certain steps before prescribing a minor a
course of treatment with opioid medication, including discussing opioid risks and obtaining verbal consent, except in specified instances. The bill would make a violation of the bill’s provisions unprofessional conduct and would subject the prescriber to discipline by the board charged with regulating his or her license.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Article 10.8 (commencing with Section 745) is added to Chapter 1 of Division 2 of the Business and Professions Code, to read:Article 10.8. Opioid Medication For Minors
745.
(a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply:(1) “Opioid medication” means an opioid analgesic drug product, including, but not limited to, an abuse-deterrent opioid analgesic drug product.
(2) “Prescriber” means a person licensed, certified, registered, or otherwise subject to regulation pursuant to this division, or an initiative act referred to in this division, who is authorized to prescribe opioid medication.
(b) A prescriber authorized to prescribe a
Schedule II controlled substance shall comply with this section when prescribing opioid medication to a minor.
(c) A prescriber shall not prescribe more than a five-day supply of opioid medication to a minor unless the prescription is for any of the following:
(1) Management of pain associated with cancer.
(2) Use in palliative or hospice care.
(3) Management of chronic pain not associated with cancer.
(4) Treatment of a substance use disorder.
(5) Sickle cell disease.
(6) Acute intermittent porphyria.
(d) Except in the case of a prescription for a use listed in subdivision (c), before prescribing a minor a course of treatment with opioid medication, regardless of whether the dosage is modified during that course of treatment, a prescriber shall do all of the following:
(1) Assess whether the minor has taken or is currently taking prescription drugs for treatment of a substance use disorder.
(2) Discuss with the minor and the minor’s parent or guardian, or other authorized adult, all of the following:
(A) The risks of addiction and overdose associated with opioid medication.
(B) The increased risk of addiction to opioid medication to individuals suffering from mental or substance abuse disorders.
(C) The dangers of taking opioid medication with benzodiazepines, alcohol, or other central nervous system depressants.
(D) Any other information deemed necessary by the prescriber.
(3) Obtain verbal consent for the prescription from the minor’s parent or guardian, or authorized adult. The prescriber shall note
the consent in the minor’s record.
(e) Subdivision (c) and paragraph (3) of subdivision (d) shall not apply if the minor’s treatment with opioid medication meets either of the following criteria:
(1)The treatment is associated with, or incident to, a medical emergency as documented in the minor’s medical record.
(f) This section shall not apply to emergency services and care as defined in Section 1317.1 of the Health and Safety Code.
(f)
(g) A violation of this section constitutes unprofessional conduct and grounds for disciplinary action by the prescriber’s licensing board. Each licensing board established under this division, or under an initiative act referred to in this division, shall be charged with enforcing this section as it pertains to that board’s prescribers.
