Bill Text: TX HB4297 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of physicians to delegate to certain pharmacists the implementation and modification of a patient's drug therapy.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-30 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB4297 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB4297-Comm_Sub.html
86R19764 JCG-F | |||
By: Raney | H.B. No. 4297 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 4297: | |||
By: Guerra | C.S.H.B. No. 4297 |
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relating to the authority of physicians to delegate to certain | ||
pharmacists the implementation and modification of a patient's drug | ||
therapy. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 157.101(b-1), Occupations Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(b-1) A delegation under Subsection (b) may include: | ||
(1) the implementation or modification of a patient's | ||
drug therapy under a protocol if: | ||
(A) the delegation follows a diagnosis, initial | ||
patient assessment, and drug therapy order by the physician; and | ||
(B) the pharmacist maintains a copy of the | ||
protocol for inspection until at least the seventh anniversary of | ||
the expiration date of the protocol; or | ||
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drug order for dangerous drugs for a patient[ |
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initial patient assessment, and drug therapy order by the | ||
physician; | ||
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hospital-based clinic, or an academic health care institution; | ||
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or academic health care institution in which the pharmacist | ||
practices has bylaws and a medical staff policy that permit a | ||
physician to delegate to a pharmacist the management of a patient's | ||
drug therapy; | ||
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address, and telephone number of the pharmacist and of the | ||
delegating physician on each prescription signed by the pharmacist; | ||
and | ||
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protocol to the Texas State Board of Pharmacy. | ||
SECTION 2. Not later than December 1, 2019, the Texas State | ||
Board of Pharmacy shall adopt rules necessary to implement Section | ||
554.057, Occupations Code. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |