Bill Text: CA SB1254 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Hospital pharmacies: medication profiles or lists for high-risk patients.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2018-09-22 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 697, Statutes of 2018. [SB1254 Detail]

Download: California-2017-SB1254-Amended.html

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Amended  IN  Senate  April 02, 2018

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 1254

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Introduced by Senator Stone

February 15, 2018

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An act to add Section 4118.5 to the Business and Professions Code, relating to healing arts.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 1254, as amended, Stone. Hospital pharmacies: medication profiles or lists for high-risk patients.

Existing law, the Pharmacy Law, a willful violation of which is a misdemeanor, provides for the licensure and regulation of pharmacists, intern pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, and pharmacies by the California State Board of Pharmacy. Existing regulatory law requires a pharmacy to maintain medication profiles on all patients who have prescriptions filled at that pharmacy, except under specified circumstances.

This bill would require a pharmacist at a hospital pharmacy to obtain an accurate medication profile or list for each high-risk patient upon admission and discharge of the patient. The bill would authorize an intern pharmacist or a pharmacy technician to perform that function if the intern pharmacist or pharmacy technician has successfully completed training and proctoring by a pharmacist and where a quality assurance program is used to monitor competency. The bill would require the board to adopt regulations specifying the training and proctoring required to be completed. the task of obtaining an accurate medication profile or list for a high-risk patient if certain conditions are satisfied. The bill would require the hospital to determine what constitutes a high-risk patient for purposes of the bill’s provisions based on the populations served by the hospital.

By expanding placing new requirements on a pharmacist, this bill would expand the scope of a crime, the bill would an existing crime and would, therefore, 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: YES  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 4118.5 is added to the Business and Professions Code, to read:

4118.5.

 (a) At a hospital pharmacy, a pharmacist shall obtain an accurate medication profile or list for each high-risk patient upon admission and discharge of the high-risk patient. A

(b) Notwithstanding any other law, a pharmacy technician or a pharmacy intern may perform this function if the pharmacy technician or pharmacy intern has successfully completed training and proctoring by a pharmacist and where a quality assurance program is used to monitor competency. the task of obtaining an accurate medication profile or list for a high-risk patient if both of the following conditions are satisfied:

(1) The hospital pharmacy has a quality assurance program, which is under the direction of the pharmacist-in-charge, to monitor competency.

(2) The hospital has established policies and procedures for training and proctoring pharmacy technicians or pharmacy interns and the pharmacy technician or pharmacy intern has completed that training and proctoring.

(b)The board shall adopt regulations specifying the training and proctoring required to be completed pursuant to this section.

(c) The hospital shall establish criteria regarding who is a high-risk patient for purposes of this section based on the patient populations served by the hospital.

SEC. 2.

 No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because the only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school district will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution.