Bill Text: TX SB1985 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a pharmacist's authority to refuse to dispense a drug.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-03-17 - Referred to State Affairs [SB1985 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-SB1985-Introduced.html
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| By: Hall | S.B. No. 1985 | |
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| relating to a pharmacist's authority to refuse to dispense a drug. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 551.006, Occupations Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 551.006. [ |
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| (a) In this section, "emergency contraceptive" means a drug | ||
| containing an elevated dose of hormones that: | ||
| (1) is used postcoitally; | ||
| (2) prevents pregnancy by preventing fertilization of | ||
| an egg or preventing implantation of a fertilized egg in a uterus; | ||
| and | ||
| (3) is approved by the United States Food and Drug | ||
| Administration. | ||
| (b) Notwithstanding any other law, a pharmacist may refuse | ||
| to dispense a drug only if the drug is: | ||
| (1) an abortion-inducing drug or emergency | ||
| contraceptive; or | ||
| (2) a controlled substance listed in Schedules II | ||
| through V as established under Chapter 481, Health and Safety Code, | ||
| and the pharmacist reasonably suspects the drug will be misused | ||
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| (c) This section does not limit the ability of a pharmacist | ||
| to, in the exercise of sound professional judgment, confer with a | ||
| practitioner or provide drug information to a patient in the course | ||
| of the pharmacist's professional practice. | ||
| SECTION 2. 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. | ||
