Bill Text: IL HB4411 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Pharmacy Practice Act. Provides that a pharmacist must ensure that a sign warning of the dangers associated with opioids is conspicuously displayed in the pharmacy. Provides that the Department of Public Health shall develop the form and content of the sign.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-05 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB4411 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB4411-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB4411 Introduced , by Rep. Dave Vella SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
225 ILCS 85/19.1
Amends the Pharmacy Practice Act. Provides that a pharmacist must ensure that a sign warning of the dangers associated with opioids is conspicuously displayed in the pharmacy. Provides that the Department of Public Health shall develop the form and content of the sign.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning regulation.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Pharmacy Practice Act is amended by
changing Section 19.1 as follows:
(225 ILCS 85/19.1)
(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2028)
Sec. 19.1. Dispensing opioids and opioid antagonists.
(a) Due to the recent rise in opioid-related deaths in
Illinois and the existence of an opioid antagonist that can
reverse the deadly effects of overdose, the General Assembly
finds that in order to avoid further loss where possible, it is
responsible to allow greater access of such an antagonist to
those populations at risk of overdose.
(b) Notwithstanding any general or special law to the
contrary, a licensed pharmacist shall dispense an opioid
antagonist in accordance with written, standardized procedures
or protocols developed by the Department with the Department
of Public Health and the Department of Human Services and
filed at the pharmacy before implementation and are available
to the Department upon request.
(c) Before dispensing an opioid, a pharmacist shall inform
patients that opioids are addictive and offer to dispense an

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