Bill Text: IL SB2058 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Pharmacy Practice Act. Provides that, beginning on January 1, 2022, all prescriptions orders for drugs or medical devices must be electronically transmitted to the patient's pharmacy of choice. Requires the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to adopt rules governing the use of electronically transmitted prescription orders.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2019-01-09 - Session Sine Die [SB2058 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-SB2058-Introduced.html

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2017 and 2018 SB2058 Introduced 2/10/2017, by Sen. Chapin Rose SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
225 ILCS 85/25.20
Amends the Pharmacy Practice Act. Provides that, beginning on January 1, 2022, all prescriptions orders for drugs or medical devices must be electronically transmitted to the patient's pharmacy of choice. Requires the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to adopt rules governing the use of electronically transmitted prescription orders.
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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 25.20 as follows:
(225 ILCS 85/25.20)
(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2018)
Sec. 25.20. Electronic visual image prescriptions. If a
pharmacy's computer system can capture an unalterable
electronic visual image of the prescription drug order, the
electronic image shall constitute the original prescription
and a hard copy of the prescription drug order is not required.
The computer system must be capable of maintaining, printing,
and providing, upon a request by the Department, the
Department's compliance officers, and other authorized agents,
all of the prescription information required by State law and
regulations of the Department within 72 hours of the request.
Beginning on January 1, 2022, all prescriptions orders for
drugs or medical devices, as defined in this Act, must be
electronically transmitted to the patient's pharmacy of
choice. The Department shall adopt rules governing the use of
electronically transmitted prescription orders.
(Source: P.A. 95-689, eff. 10-29-07.)