Virginia House Bill 1038 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 10 2024 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-01-30 - Incorporated by Health and Human Services
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Board of Pharmacy; use of automated dispensing systems and remote dispensing systems in certain facilities. Defines "remote dispensing system" as a profile-driven automated drug dispensing system that performs operations or activities relative to the storage, packaging, labeling, or dispensing of medications employing bidirectional and audio-visual technology to facilitate pharmacist communication with a patient, an authorized agent of a patient, or a person licensed to administer drugs, and collects, controls, and maintains all transaction information. The bill allows for the use of remote dispensing systems in hospitals, state facilities licensed pursuant to Title 37.2, services licensed by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services as a site-based crisis stabilization unit, and any other facility authorized by the Board of Pharmacy in regulation wherein drugs are administered only by persons licensed to administer drugs and where the pharmacist-in-charge can ensure the security and environmental integrity of the drugs and devices. The bill extends the use of automated drug dispensing systems from use only in hospitals to use in each such facility listed above.

Automated and remote dispensing systems; use in certain facilities.

Del. Otto Wachsmann [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-01-30	House	Incorporated by Health and Human Services
2024-01-10	House	Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services
2024-01-10	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103493D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
54	1	3401	(n/a)	See Bill Text
54	1	3434.02	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB1038
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB1038+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+oth+HB1038F122+PDF