HB 2627
Initials AG/BG Page 1 Health & Human Services
ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Fifty-seventh Legislature
First Regular Session
HB 2627: pharmacies; emergency authority
Sponsor: Representative Weninger, LD 13
Committee on Health & Human Services
Overview
Requires the State Board of Pharmacy (Board) to adopt rules to allow pharmacies that are
owned by a health system to compound and repackage prescription drugs on a non-patient
specific basis for their patients during a state of emergency. Specifies that a pharmacist's
authority to compound or repackage prescriptions ends when the declared state of emergency
is terminated.
History
If a natural disaster or terrorist attack occurs and, as a consequence of the natural disaster
or terrorist attack, a state of emergency is declared by the Governor or by a county, city or
town pursuant to its authority, resulting in individuals being unable to refill existing
prescriptions, the Board must cooperate with this state and the county, city or town to ensure
the provision of drugs, devices and professional services to the public.
When a state of emergency has been declared, a pharmacist may work in the affected county,
city or town and may dispense a one-time emergency refill prescription of up to a 30-day
supply of a prescribed medication if both of the following apply: 1) in the pharmacist's
professional opinion the medication is essential to the maintenance of life or to the
continuation of therapy; and 2) the pharmacist makes a good faith effort to reduce the
information to a written prescription marked "emergency prescription" and then files and
maintains the prescription as required by law.
The Board may adopt rules for the provision of pharmaceutical care and drug and device
delivery during a declared emergency that is the consequence of a natural disaster or terrorist
attack, including the use of temporary or mobile pharmacy facilities and nonresident licensed
pharmacy professionals. A pharmacist's authority to dispense prescriptions ends when the
declared state of emergency is terminated (A.R.S. § 32-1910).
Provisions
1. Requires the Board to adopt rules to allow pharmacies that are owned by a health system
to compound and repackage prescription drugs on a non-patient specific basis for the
patients of that health system during a declared state of emergency. (Sec. 1)
2. Adds that a pharmacist's authority to compound or repackage prescriptions ends when
the declared state of emergency is terminated. (Sec. 1)
3. Makes technical changes. (Sec. 1)
☐ Prop 105 (45 votes) ☐ Prop 108 (40 votes) ☐ Emergency (40 votes) ☐ Fiscal Note