Bill Text: TX HB2069 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the authority of a pharmacist to dispense up to a 90-day supply of dangerous drugs and accelerate refills.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [HB2069 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB2069-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of a pharmacist to dispense up to a 90-day supply of dangerous drugs and accelerate refills.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [HB2069 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB2069-Introduced.html
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By: Naishtat | H.B. No. 2069 |
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relating to the authority of a pharmacist to accelerate refills. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 562.007, Occupations Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 562.007. REFILLS. Except as provided by Section | ||
562.0545, a [ |
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follow the original dispensing instruction unless otherwise | ||
indicated by the practitioner or the practitioner's agent. | ||
SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 562, Occupations Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 562.0545 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 562.0545. ACCELERATED REFILLS. A pharmacist may | ||
dispense up to a 90-day supply of a dangerous drug pursuant to a | ||
valid prescription that specifies dispensation of a lesser amount | ||
followed by periodic refills of that amount if: | ||
(1) the total quantity of dosage units dispensed does | ||
not exceed the total quantity of dosage units authorized by the | ||
prescriber on the original prescription, including refills; | ||
(2) the physician has not specified on the | ||
prescription that dispensing the prescription in an initial amount | ||
followed by periodic refills is medically necessary; and | ||
(3) in the pharmacist's professional judgment, | ||
dispensing the prescription in this manner would not be harmful to | ||
the patient. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. |