Bill Text: TX HB849 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to an acknowledgment on receipt of an opioid prescription drug.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-01 - Referred to Public Health [HB849 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB849-Introduced.html
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| By: Thierry | H.B. No. 849 | |
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| relating to an acknowledgment on receipt of an opioid prescription | ||
| drug. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 481.074(a), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| (a) A pharmacist may not: | ||
| (1) dispense or deliver a controlled substance or | ||
| cause a controlled substance to be dispensed or delivered under the | ||
| pharmacist's direction or supervision except under a valid | ||
| prescription and in the course of professional practice; | ||
| (2) dispense a controlled substance if the pharmacist | ||
| knows or should have known that the prescription was issued without | ||
| a valid patient-practitioner relationship; | ||
| (3) fill a prescription that is not prepared or issued | ||
| as prescribed by this chapter; | ||
| (4) permit or allow a person who is not a licensed | ||
| pharmacist or pharmacist intern to dispense, distribute, or in any | ||
| other manner deliver a controlled substance even if under the | ||
| supervision of a pharmacist, except that after the pharmacist or | ||
| pharmacist intern has fulfilled his professional and legal | ||
| responsibilities, a nonpharmacist may complete the actual cash or | ||
| credit transaction and delivery; [ |
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| (5) permit the delivery of a controlled substance to | ||
| any person not known to the pharmacist, the pharmacist intern, or | ||
| the person authorized by the pharmacist to deliver the controlled | ||
| substance without first requiring identification of the person | ||
| taking possession of the controlled substance, except as provided | ||
| by Subsection (n); or | ||
| (6) dispense or deliver an opioid without: | ||
| (A) providing to the person taking possession of | ||
| the opioid the acknowledgment form described by Section 481.0761(l) | ||
| providing a warning about the risks of opioid addiction and | ||
| overdose; | ||
| (B) receiving from that person the signed | ||
| acknowledgment form; and | ||
| (C) maintaining the signed acknowledgment form | ||
| in the pharmacist's records. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 481.0761, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Subsection (l) to read as follows: | ||
| (l) The board by rule shall adopt an acknowledgment form | ||
| providing a warning about the risks of opioid addiction and | ||
| overdose to be signed by a person on receipt of an opioid. The | ||
| acknowledgment form must include language substantially similar to | ||
| the following, in all capital letters and printed in 14-point font: | ||
| "WARNING: THIS DRUG IS AN OPIOID. THE USE OF AN OPIOID MAY | ||
| RESULT IN ADDICTION TO OPIOIDS AND DEATH.". | ||
| SECTION 3. The Texas State Board of Pharmacy shall adopt the | ||
| rules required under Section 481.0761(l), Health and Safety Code, | ||
| as added by this Act, not later than January 1, 2022. | ||
| SECTION 4. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
| to a prescription for an opioid dispensed on or after March 1, 2022. | ||
| A prescription dispensed before March 1, 2022, is governed by the | ||
| law in effect immediately before the effective date of this Act, and | ||
| the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 5. 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, 2021. | ||
