Bill Text: CT HB05450 | 2010 | General Assembly | Comm Sub

Connecticut House Bill 5450 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: An Act Concerning Expedited Partner Therapy For Sexually Transmitted Diseases.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-04-07 - File Number 375 [HB05450 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2010-HB05450-Comm_Sub.html

General Assembly		*Substitute Bill No. 5450*
*February Session, 2010*		_____HB05450PH____032510____

AN ACT CONCERNING EXPEDITED PARTNER THERAPY FOR SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. Section 20-14e of the 2010 supplement to the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2010):

(a) A drug dispensed by a prescribing practitioner shall be personally dispensed by the prescribing practitioner and the dispensing of such drug shall not be delegated except that, in emergency departments of acute care hospitals licensed under chapter 368v, the tasks related to dispensing such drug may be carried out by a nurse licensed pursuant to chapter 378 under the supervision of the prescribing practitioner.

(b) A patient's medical record shall include a complete record of any drug dispensed by the prescribing practitioner.

(c) A prescribing practitioner dispensing a drug shall package the drug in containers approved by the federal Consumer Product Safety Commission, unless requested otherwise by the patient, and shall label the container with the following information: (1) The full name of the patient; (2) the prescribing practitioner's full name and address; (3) the date of dispensing; (4) instructions for use; and (5) any cautionary statements as may be required by law.

(d) Professional samples dispensed by a prescribing practitioner shall be exempt from the requirements of subsection (c) of this section.

(e) Notwithstanding the provisions of this section or chapter 400j, a prescribing practitioner who diagnoses a sexually transmitted chlamydia or gonorrhea infection in a patient may prescribe and dispense oral antibiotic drugs to such patient and the patient's sexual partner or partners without a physical examination of the sexual partner or partners. A prescribing practitioner who prescribes or dispenses oral antibiotic drugs to the sexual partner or partners of a patient diagnosed with an infection of chlamydia or gonorrhea, in accordance with the provisions of this subsection, shall not be deemed to have violated the prescribing practitioner's standard of care for such prescribing or dispensing. The Commissioner of Public Health, in consultation with the Commissioner of Consumer Protection, may adopt regulations, in accordance with chapter 54, to implement the provisions of this subsection.

[(e)] (f) A prescribing physician or surgeon may dispense and sell contact lenses that contain a drug, as defined in section 20-571, and such physician or surgeon shall be exempt from the requirements of subsection (c) of this section when dispensing or selling contact lenses. As used in this subsection, "physician" means a person holding a license issued pursuant to this chapter, except a homeopathic physician.

[(f)] (g) A licensed optometrist, authorized to practice advanced optometric care pursuant to section 20-127, who dispenses contact lenses that contain ocular agents-T, as defined in subdivision (5) of subsection (a) of section 20-127, shall be exempt from the requirements of subsection (c) of this section when dispensing or selling contact lenses.

Sec. 2. Subsection (a) of section 19a-216 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2010):

(a) Any municipal health department, state institution or facility, licensed physician or public or private hospital or clinic, may [examine and] provide treatment for venereal disease for a minor, if the physician or facility is qualified to provide such [examination and] treatment. The consent of the parents or guardian of the minor shall not be a prerequisite to the [examination and] treatment. The physician in charge or other appropriate authority of the facility or the licensed physician concerned shall prescribe an appropriate course of treatment for the minor. The fact of consultation, examination [and] or treatment of a minor under the provisions of this section shall be confidential and shall not be divulged by the facility or physician, including the sending of a bill for the services to any person other than the minor, except for purposes of reports under section 19a-215, and except that, if the minor is not more than twelve years of age, the facility or physician shall report the name, age and address of that minor to the Commissioner of Children and Families or [his] the commissioner's designee who shall proceed thereon as in reports under section 17a-101g.