Bill Text: CA SB1426 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Pharmacists: authority to prescribe and dispense dangerous drugs and devices.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-04-11 - April 16 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author. [SB1426 Detail]

Download: California-2017-SB1426-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 1426

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Introduced by Senator Stone

February 16, 2018

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An act relating to healing arts.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 1426, as introduced, Stone. Pharmacists: authority to prescribe and dispense dangerous drugs and devices.

Existing law, the Pharmacy Law, provides for the licensure and regulation of pharmacists by the California State Board of Pharmacy, and generally prohibits a pharmacist from dispensing a dangerous drug or dangerous device except upon the prescription of an authorized prescriber. Existing law, notwithstanding that prohibition, authorizes a pharmacist to furnish certain dangerous drugs and devices, including nicotine replacement products, certain vaccines, and self-administered hormonal contraceptives, without a prescription in accordance with specified protocols and conditions.

This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would require the California State Board of Pharmacy to convene a Public Health and Pharmacy Formulary Advisory Committee to advise the board in promulgating regulations to establish a formulary of drugs and devices that a pharmacist may prescribe and dispense to a patient, and to promulgate regulations establishing a formulary of dangerous drugs and devices that a pharmacy may prescribe and dispense to a patient.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

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

SECTION 1.

 It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would do both of the following:

(a) Require the California State Board of Pharmacy to convene a Public Health and Pharmacy Formulary Advisory Committee, that includes representatives from the Medical Board of California, the Board of Registered Nursing, and the California State Board of Pharmacy, for the purpose of advising the California State Board of Pharmacy in promulgating regulations to establish a formulary of dangerous drugs and devices that a pharmacist may prescribe and dispense to a patient.

(b) Require the California State Board of Pharmacy to establish by regulation a formulary of dangerous drugs and devices recommended by the Public Health and Pharmacy Formulary Advisory Committee that a pharmacist may prescribe and dispense to a patient that may include postdiagnostic drugs and devices such as diabetic testing supplies, emergency refills of insulin, albuterol inhalers, epinephrine autoinjectors, discharge medications for transitions of care, rapid strep tests, and spacers.