Bill Text: HI SB2339 | 2018 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Relating To Prescription Drugs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-03-28 - The committee(s) on CPC recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. [SB2339 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2018-SB2339-Amended.html

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THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	2339
TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE, 2018		S.D. 1
STATE OF HAWAII		H.D. 1

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

RELATING TO PRESCRIPTION DRUGS.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 

     SECTION 1.  Chapter 461, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

     "§461-    Return for disposal of unused, remaining, or expired drugs; pharmacy options.  Every pharmacy may accept for disposal from any person the return of any unused, remaining, or expired prescription drug that the pharmacy previously dispensed using one of the following methods:

     (1)  Collection receptacles; or

     (2)  Mail-back program."

     SECTION 2.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 3000.

 

Report Title:

Pharmacies; Prescription Drugs; Return for Disposal

 

Description:

Authorizes pharmacies to accept for disposal the return of any unused, remaining, or expired prescription drugs that the pharmacy previously dispensed, via collection receptacles or mail-back programs.  (SB2339 HD1)

 

 

 

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