Bill Text: TX HB4166 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled


Bill Title: Relating to the packaging requirements for certain donated prescription drugs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-06-12 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB4166 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB4166-Enrolled.html
 
 
  H.B. No. 4166
 
 
 
 
AN ACT
  relating to the packaging requirements for certain donated
  prescription drugs.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 442.053(a), Health and Safety Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (a)  A donated prescription drug may be accepted or dispensed
  under this chapter only if the drug is in its original, unopened,
  sealed, and tamper-evident bottle, container, or unit-dose
  packaging. A drug packaged in single unit doses may be accepted and
  dispensed if the outside packaging is opened but the single
  unit-dose packaging is unopened.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
 
 
  ______________________________ ______________________________
     President of the Senate Speaker of the House     
 
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 4166 was passed by the House on April
  28, 2023, by the following vote:  Yeas 140, Nays 4, 2 present, not
  voting.
 
  ______________________________
  Chief Clerk of the House   
 
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 4166 was passed by the Senate on May
  17, 2023, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.
 
  ______________________________
  Secretary of the Senate    
  APPROVED:  _____________________
                     Date          
   
            _____________________
                   Governor       
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