Bill Text: TX HB25 | 2025 | 89th Legislature 2nd Special Session | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to a pharmacist's authority to dispense ivermectin without a prescription.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 95-3)
Status: (Passed) 2025-09-17 - Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . December 4, 2025 [HB25 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB25-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 25 | ||
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| relating to a pharmacist's authority to dispense ivermectin without | ||
| a prescription. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subtitle A, Title 6, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Chapter 446 to read as follows: | ||
| CHAPTER 446. IVERMECTIN | ||
| Sec. 446.001. SALE OF IVERMECTIN WITHOUT A PRESCRIPTION; | ||
| ESTABLISHING PROTECTIONS. (a) A pharmacist may dispense | ||
| ivermectin to a person, without requiring a prescription order from | ||
| a licensed health care practitioner, in accordance with any written | ||
| standardized procedures or protocols issued by the Texas State | ||
| Board of Pharmacy, including, if required, providing the person | ||
| with instructions on the proper use of ivermectin. | ||
| (b) Notwithstanding any other law, a pharmacist acting in a | ||
| reasonably prudent manner is not criminally or civilly liable or | ||
| subject to professional disciplinary action for dispensing | ||
| ivermectin in accordance with this section. | ||
| Sec. 446.002. RULES. The Texas State Board of Pharmacy may | ||
| adopt the rules necessary to implement this chapter. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect on the 91st day after the | ||
| last day of the legislative session. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 25 was passed by the House on August | ||
| 27, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 87, Nays 47, 1 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 25 was passed by the Senate on August | ||
| 27, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 20, Nays 6. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
