South Carolina Senate Bill 505

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on February 8 2023 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2023-02-15 - Scrivener's error corrected
Pending: Senate Medical Affairs Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #2) [HTML]

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Amending Section 40-43-30, Relating To Definitions In The Pharmacy Practice Act, So As To Provide Additional Acts That Constitute The Practice Of Pharmacy, To Permit The Delegation Of Certain Acts To Trained Pharmacy Technicians And Pharmacy Interns, And To Define An Additional Term; By Amending Section 40-43-84, Relating To Pharmacy Interns And Externs, So As To Remove Certain Direct Supervision Requirements; By Amending Section 40-43-190, Relating To Protocol For Pharmacists To Administer Vaccines Without Practitioner Orders, So As To Include The Dispensation Of Certain Drugs And Devices, To Lower The Vaccination Recipient Age To Twelve Years Of Age, To Authorize Directly Supervised Pharmacy Interns To Administer Certain Vaccinations, And To Provide Written Protocol Requirements, Among Other Things; By Amending Section 40-43-200, Relating To The Joint Pharmacist Administered Vaccines Committee, So As To Rename The Committee As The "joint Pharmacist Access Committee" And Make Other Conforming Changes; And To Provide The Pharmacist Access Committee Must Submit Its Initial Recommendations To The Board Of Pharmacy No Later Than Four Months After The Passage Of This Act, And Periodically Thereafter As Determined By The Committee.

Pharmacists and pharmacy technicians

Sen. Thomas Davis [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-02-15		Scrivener's error corrected
2023-02-08	Senate	Referred to Committee on Medical Affairs
2023-02-08	Senate	Introduced and read first time

H3988 (Similar To) 2024-07-17 - Act No. 221

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
40	43	190	(n/a)	See Bill Text
40	43	200	(n/a)	See Bill Text
40	43	30	(n/a)	See Bill Text
40	43	84	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.scstatehouse.gov/billsearch.php?billnumbers=0505&session=125&summary=B
Text	https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess125_2023-2024/prever/505_20230208.htm
Text	https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess125_2023-2024/prever/505_20230215.htm