MD HB1159 | 2017 | Regular Session

Status

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Engrossed on March 20 2017 - 50% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2017-04-06 - Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [PDF]

Summary

Authorizing, with a specified exception, a pharmacist to dispense, in a single dispensing and exercising the pharmacist's professional judgment, a quantity of a prescription drug that is up to a specified number of authorized dosage units and does not exceed a 90-day supply of the prescription drug; providing that the Act does not apply to a specified controlled dangerous substance, specified prescriptions that an authorized prescriber prescribes for a patient, or a specified supply of prescription contraceptives; etc.

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Title

Pharmacists - Dispensing of Prescription Drugs - Single Dispensing of Dosage Units

Sponsors


Roll Calls

2017-03-17 - House - House Floor - Third Reading Passed (141-0) (Y: 141 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

History

DateChamberAction
2017-04-06SenateUnfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn
2017-03-21SenateFirst Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs
2017-03-20HouseThird Reading Passed (141-0)
2017-03-18HouseSecond Reading Passed with Amendments
2017-03-18HouseFavorable with Amendments {626688/1 Report Adopted
2017-03-17HouseFavorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations
2017-03-09HouseHearing 3/09 at 1:00 p.m.
2017-02-09HouseFirst Reading Health and Government Operations

Subjects


Maryland State Sources


Bill Comments

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