Bill Text: CA SB1229 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Pharmacists: opioid medications: consultation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-04-23 - April 23 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author. [SB1229 Detail]
Download: California-2017-SB1229-Amended.html
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION
| Senate Bill | No. 1229 |
| Introduced by Senator Stone |
February 15, 2018 |
An act to add Section 4079 to the Business and Professions Code, relating to healing arts.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 1229, as amended, Stone.
Pharmacists: opioid medications: consultation.
Existing law, the Pharmacy Law, a knowing violation of which is a misdemeanor, provides for the licensure and regulation of pharmacists by the California State Board of Pharmacy. Existing A knowing violation of that law is a misdemeanor. That law requires a pharmacist to inform a patient orally or in writing of the harmful effects of a drug dispensed by prescription under specified circumstances, and requires a pharmacist to use professional judgment to provide a patient with directions for use that enhance the patient’s understanding of those directions. Existing regulatory law requires a pharmacist to provide
oral consultation to a patient upon the patient’s request or whenever the pharmacist, in his or her professional judgment, deems it warranted.
This bill bill, except as specified, would require a pharmacist pharmacist, on dispensing any opioid medication to a patient or the patient’s agent for the first time, to provide oral consultation to a patient or the patient’s agent before dispensing any opioid medication
the medication, in accordance with regulations to be adopted by the board, except as specified. board. The bill would prohibit the pharmacist from dispensing the medication if the patient or the patient’s agent declines the consultation. Because a knowing violation of the bill’s provisions would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
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.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: YESBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 4079 is added to the Business and Professions Code, to read:4079.
(a) A(b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), a pharmacist at a hospital pharmacy is not required to provide oral consultation before dispensing an opioid
medication to a patient who has been admitted to the hospital. For purposes of this subdivision, “hospital pharmacy” has the same meaning as that term is defined in Section 4029.
(c) Subject to Section 4001.1, the board shall adopt regulations to implement this section that include, but are not limited to, establishing matters required to be discussed in the consultation.
