BILL NUMBER: SB 632INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Senator Emmerson FEBRUARY 18, 2011 An act to amend Section 4037 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to pharmacy. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST SB 632, as introduced, Emmerson. Pharmacy. Existing law, the Pharmacy Law, provides for the licensure and regulation of pharmacists and pharmacies by the California State Board of Pharmacy. Existing law defines the term "pharmacy" for the purposes of these provisions. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to that provision. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 4037 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read: 4037. (a) "Pharmacy"meansshall mean an area, place, or premises licensed by the board in which the profession of pharmacy is practiced and where prescriptions are compounded. "Pharmacy" includes, but is not limited to, any area, place, or premises described in a license issued by the board wherein controlled substances, dangerous drugs, or dangerous devices are stored, possessed, prepared, manufactured, derived, compounded, or repackaged, and from which the controlled substances, dangerous drugs, or dangerous devices are furnished, sold, or dispensed at retail. (b) "Pharmacy" shall not include any area in a facility licensed by the State Department of Public Health where floor supplies, ward supplies, operating room supplies, or emergency room supplies of dangerous drugs or dangerous devices are stored or possessed solely for treatment of patients registered for treatment in the facility or for treatment of patients receiving emergency care in the facility.