Bill Text: NJ S839 | 2020-2021 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides prescriber or health care facility with discretion to number prescription blank forms consecutively.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-14 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee [S839 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2020-S839-Introduced.html

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SENATE, No. 839

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

219th LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2020 SESSION

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  NELLIE POU

District 35 (Bergen and Passaic)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Provides prescriber or health care facility with discretion to number prescription blank forms consecutively.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.

  

An Act concerning prescription drug blank forms and amending P.L.2003, c.280.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    Section 20 of P.L.2003, c.280 (C.45:14-59) is amended to read as follows:

     20.  The Division of Consumer Affairs in the Department of Law and Public Safety shall establish the format for uniform, non-reproducible, non-erasable safety paper prescription blanks, to be known as New Jersey Prescription Blanks, which format shall include an identifiable logo or symbol that will appear on all prescription blanks.  The prescription blanks for each prescriber or health care facility shall, at the discretion of the prescriber or health care facility, be numbered consecutively, and if the prescriber or health care facility has a National Provider Identifier[,] the prescription blank shall include the National Provider Identifier. The division shall approve a sufficient number of vendors to ensure production of an adequate supply of New Jersey Prescription Blanks for practitioners and health care facilities Statewide.

(cf:  P.L.2007, c.244, s.22)

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill amends section 20 of P.L.2003, c.280 (C.45:14-59), concerning the format for New Jersey Prescription Blanks (uniform, non-reproducible, non-erasable safety paper prescription blanks), to provide that the prescription blanks for each prescriber or health care facility would, at the discretion of the prescriber or health care facility, be numbered consecutively.  Current law requires that the prescription blanks be numbered consecutively, without giving the prescriber or health care facility discretion to consecutively number the blanks.