Mississippi House Bill 996 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Passed on March 15 2017 - 100% progression
Action: 2017-03-15 - Approved by Governor
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [HTML]

An Act To Amend Section 41-29-319, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Authorize Health Care Practitioners To Issue A Standing Order To One Or More Individual Pharmacies That Authorizes The Pharmacy To Dispense An Opioid Antagonist To Certain Persons Without The Person To Whom The Opioid Antagonist Is Dispensed Needing To Have An Individual Prescription; To Augment The List Of First Responders Who Are Authorized To Administer Opioid Antagonists Such As Naloxone To Provide That Before A Pharmacist May Dispense An Opioid Antagonist Under The Authority Of Such A Standing Order, The Pharmacist Must Complete A Training Program Approved By The State Board Of Pharmacy On Opioid Antagonists; To Amend Section 73-21-73, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide That The Definition Of The Term "prescription" In The Pharmacy Practice Act Includes Standing Orders Authorized By The Preceding Provision; And For Related Purposes.

Opioid antagonists; authorize standing orders to pharmacies to dispense to persons without individual prescriptions.

Rep. Patricia Willis [R]

Rep. Kathy Sykes [D]

2017-03-06 - Senate - Senate Passed (Y: 51 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-02-09 - House - House Passed (Y: 122 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-03-15		Approved by Governor
2017-03-09	Senate	Enrolled Bill Signed
2017-03-09	House	Enrolled Bill Signed
2017-03-07	Senate	Returned For Enrolling
2017-03-06	Senate	Passed
2017-02-28	Senate	Title Suff Do Pass
2017-02-22	Senate	Referred To Appropriations
2017-02-13	House	Transmitted To Senate
2017-02-09	House	Passed
2017-02-09	House	Committee Substitute Adopted
2017-02-08	House	Read the Third Time
2017-01-26	House	Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub
2017-01-26	House	DR - TSDPCS: PH To DP
2017-01-25	House	DR - TSDPCS: DP To PH
2017-01-16	House	Referred To Drug Policy;Public Health and Human Services

Type	Source
Summary	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2017/pdf/history/HB/HB0996.xml
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2017/html/HB/0900-0999/HB0996IN.htm
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2017/html/HB/0900-0999/HB0996CS.htm
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2017/html/HB/0900-0999/HB0996PS.htm
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2017/html/HB/0900-0999/HB0996SG.htm
Roll Call	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2017/pdf/votes/house/0380027.pdf
Roll Call	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2017/pdf/votes/senate/0630002.pdf