Bill Text: CA SB491 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Pharmacies: compounding.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2020-02-03 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [SB491 Detail]
Download: California-2019-SB491-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION
| Senate Bill | No. 491 |
| Introduced by Senator Stone |
February 21, 2019 |
An act to add Section 4126.7 to the Business and Professions Code, relating to pharmacies.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 491, as introduced, Stone.
Pharmacies: compounding.
Under the Pharmacy Law, a violation of which is a crime, the California State Board of Pharmacy licenses and regulates the practice of pharmacy. That law authorizes a pharmacy to furnish prescription drugs only to certain entities, including specific health care entities, and individual patients or another pharmacy either pursuant to prescription or as otherwise authorized by law.
This bill would authorize a pharmacy that provides compounding services to manufacture a nonpatient-specific dangerous drug for a general acute care hospital in order to help alleviate a commercial shortage of that drug.
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.
Section 4126.7 is added to the Business and Professions Code, to read:4126.7.
A pharmacy that provides compounding services may