Virginia House Bill 1265 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 20 2016 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2016-01-28 - Stricken from docket by Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Limits on dispensing of certain drugs; penalty. Prohibits a practitioner of medicine, osteopathy, podiatry, or dentistry from (i) dispensing to a patient an amount of a controlled substance that exceeds the amount necessary for the patient's use in a 72-hour period or (ii) dispensing a total amount of any controlled substance that exceeds 2,500 dosage units in any 30-day period. The bill further provides that a practitioner of medicine, osteopathy, podiatry, or dentistry who fails to comply with these requirements shall be subject to a civil penalty not to exceed $5,000.

Practitioner of medicine, osteopathy, etc.; limits on dispensing of certain drugs, penalty.

Del. Jason Miyares [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-01-28	House	Stricken from docket by Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote
2016-01-20	House	Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
2016-01-20	House	Presented and ordered printed 16103576D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
54	1	3408.001	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+sum+HB1265
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+HB1265+hil