California Senate Bill SB393 Introduced / Bill

 BILL NUMBER: SB 393INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Senator Walters FEBRUARY 20, 2013 An act to amend Section 377 of the Penal Code, relating to prescription drugs. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST SB 393, as introduced, Walters. Prescription drugs: procurement: false representation. Existing law makes it a misdemeanor for any person, in order to obtain any drug that can be lawfully dispensed by a pharmacist only on prescription, to falsely represent that he or she is a physician or other person who can lawfully prescribe the drug in a telephone communication with a pharmacist. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to this 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 377 of the Penal Code is amended to read: 377. Every person who, in order to obtain for himself  or herself  or  for  another person,  any drug that can be lawfully dispensed by a pharmacist only on prescription, falsely represents himself  or herself  to be a physician or other person who can lawfully prescribe  such   that  drug, or falsely represents that he  or she  is acting on behalf of a person who can lawfully prescribe  such   that  drug, in a telephone communication with a pharmacist, is guilty of a misdemeanor.