Bill Text: CA AB973 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Amended
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Bill Title: Pharmacies: compounding.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-08-30 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 184, Statutes of 2019. [AB973 Detail]
Download: California-2019-AB973-Amended.html
Formulary (USP 41–NF 36), Formulary, including relevant testing and quality assurance. The board may adopt regulations to impose additional standards for compounding drug preparations.
Bill Title: Pharmacies: compounding.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-08-30 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 184, Statutes of 2019. [AB973 Detail]
Download: California-2019-AB973-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Senate
May 13, 2019 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill | No. 973 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Irwin |
February 21, 2019 |
An act to add Section 4126.8 to the Business and Professions Code, relating to healing arts.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 973, as amended, Irwin.
Pharmacies: compounding.
Under the Pharmacy Law, the California State Board of Pharmacy licenses and regulates the practice of pharmacy by pharmacists and pharmacy corporations in this state. That law prohibits a pharmacy from compounding sterile drug products unless the pharmacy has obtained a sterile compounding pharmacy license from the board. A violation of that law is a crime.
This bill would require the compounding of drug preparations by a pharmacy for furnishing, distribution, or use to be consistent with standards established in the pharmacy compounding chapters of the current version of the United States Pharmacopeia-National Formulary, including relevant testing and quality assurance. The bill, by imposing a new requirement on pharmacies, the
violation of which would be a crime, would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would authorize the board to adopt regulations to impose additional standards for compounding drug preparations.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.