Bill Text: TX HB3175 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a statewide order issued by the commissioner of state health services authorizing a pharmacist to dispense ivermectin.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 25)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-03-20 - Referred to Public Health [HB3175 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB3175-Introduced.html
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| By: Virdell | H.B. No. 3175 | |
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| relating to a statewide order issued by the commissioner of state | ||
| health services authorizing a pharmacist to dispense ivermectin. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 1001, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 1001.090 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 1001.090. STATEWIDE ORDER AUTHORIZING DISPENSING OF | ||
| IVERMECTIN. (a) The commissioner shall issue a statewide order | ||
| authorizing a licensed pharmacist to dispense ivermectin without a | ||
| health care practitioner's prescription order notwithstanding any | ||
| other law. | ||
| (b) The statewide order must include written, standardized | ||
| procedures or protocols for a pharmacist to follow when dispensing | ||
| ivermectin and require the pharmacist to provide each patient with | ||
| instructions on the proper use of ivermectin. | ||
| (c) Notwithstanding any other law, a pharmacist may | ||
| dispense ivermectin in accordance with the statewide order. | ||
| (d) Except for wilful misconduct or gross negligence and | ||
| notwithstanding any other law, a pharmacist acting in good faith is | ||
| not criminally or civilly liable or subject to professional | ||
| disciplinary action for dispensing ivermectin in accordance with | ||
| the statewide order. | ||
| (e) A pharmacist dispensing ivermectin in accordance with | ||
| the statewide order shall provide an annual written report in the | ||
| form and manner the department prescribes on the number of doses of | ||
| ivermectin the pharmacist dispensed in accordance with the | ||
| statewide order in the preceding calendar year. | ||
| (f) The executive commissioner and the Texas State Board of | ||
| Pharmacy may adopt the rules necessary to implement this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
| of this Act, the commissioner of state health services shall issue a | ||
| statewide order in accordance with Section 1001.090, Health and | ||
| Safety Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
