Bill Text: CT SB00092 | 2012 | General Assembly | Comm Sub

Connecticut Senate Bill 92 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: An Act Concerning The Disposal And Collection Of Unused Medication.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-04-19 - Motion Failed JF [SB00092 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2012-SB00092-Comm_Sub.html

General Assembly		*Substitute Bill No. 92*
*February Session, 2012*		_____SB00092ENV___032212____

AN ACT CONCERNING THE DISPOSAL AND COLLECTION OF UNUSED MEDICATION.

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

Section 1. (NEW) (Effective October 1, 2012) (a) As used in this section:

(1) "Health care institution" means any public or private institution or agency licensed or certified by the state to provide health care, including a nursing home, residential health care facility, home health care agency or hospice program or an institution, facility or agency that provides services to persons with psychiatric disabilities or intellectual disability, provided "health care institution" does not include hospitals; and

(2) "Unused medication" means any unopened, expired or excess medication dispensed for patient or resident care, including pills, tablets, capsules and caplets.

(b) No health care institution and no employee, staff person, contractor, or other person acting under the direction or supervision of a health care institution, may discharge, dispose of, flush, pour or empty any unused medication into a public or private waste water collection system or septic system.

Sec. 2. (NEW) (Effective October 1, 2012) (a) The Department of Consumer Protection shall, in consultation with the Division of State Police within the Department of Emergency Management and Public Protection, the Connecticut Pharmacists Association and the Connecticut Police Chiefs Association, develop and implement a program for the collection of unwanted pharmaceuticals. Such program shall require municipal police stations and state police barracks (1) to have a secure locked box that is accessible to the public on a twenty-four-hour daily basis for the anonymous drop-off of unused pharmaceuticals, and (2) to arrange for the transport of such pharmaceuticals to a biomedical waste treatment facility, as defined in section 22a-207 of the general statutes, for incineration.

(b) The Department of Consumer Protection shall, within available appropriations, organize a public awareness campaign to educate the public concerning the dangers of unsafe disposal of pharmaceuticals and of the availability of the pharmaceutical collection program at municipal police stations and state police barracks.

(c) The Commissioner of Consumer Protection may adopt regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54 of the general statutes, to implement the provisions of this section.