CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20172018 REGULAR SESSION Senate Bill No. 1426Introduced by Senator StoneFebruary 16, 2018 An act relating to healing arts. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTSB 1426, as introduced, Stone. Pharmacists: authority to prescribe and dispense dangerous drugs and devices.Existing law, the Pharmacy Law, provides for the licensure and regulation of pharmacists by the California State Board of Pharmacy, and generally prohibits a pharmacist from dispensing a dangerous drug or dangerous device except upon the prescription of an authorized prescriber. Existing law, notwithstanding that prohibition, authorizes a pharmacist to furnish certain dangerous drugs and devices, including nicotine replacement products, certain vaccines, and self-administered hormonal contraceptives, without a prescription in accordance with specified protocols and conditions.This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would require the California State Board of Pharmacy to convene a Public Health and Pharmacy Formulary Advisory Committee to advise the board in promulgating regulations to establish a formulary of drugs and devices that a pharmacist may prescribe and dispense to a patient, and to promulgate regulations establishing a formulary of dangerous drugs and devices that a pharmacy may prescribe and dispense to a patient.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would do both of the following:(a) Require the California State Board of Pharmacy to convene a Public Health and Pharmacy Formulary Advisory Committee, that includes representatives from the Medical Board of California, the Board of Registered Nursing, and the California State Board of Pharmacy, for the purpose of advising the California State Board of Pharmacy in promulgating regulations to establish a formulary of dangerous drugs and devices that a pharmacist may prescribe and dispense to a patient.(b) Require the California State Board of Pharmacy to establish by regulation a formulary of dangerous drugs and devices recommended by the Public Health and Pharmacy Formulary Advisory Committee that a pharmacist may prescribe and dispense to a patient that may include postdiagnostic drugs and devices such as diabetic testing supplies, emergency refills of insulin, albuterol inhalers, epinephrine autoinjectors, discharge medications for transitions of care, rapid strep tests, and spacers.
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20172018 REGULAR SESSION Senate Bill No. 1426Introduced by Senator StoneFebruary 16, 2018 An act relating to healing arts. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTSB 1426, as introduced, Stone. Pharmacists: authority to prescribe and dispense dangerous drugs and devices.Existing law, the Pharmacy Law, provides for the licensure and regulation of pharmacists by the California State Board of Pharmacy, and generally prohibits a pharmacist from dispensing a dangerous drug or dangerous device except upon the prescription of an authorized prescriber. Existing law, notwithstanding that prohibition, authorizes a pharmacist to furnish certain dangerous drugs and devices, including nicotine replacement products, certain vaccines, and self-administered hormonal contraceptives, without a prescription in accordance with specified protocols and conditions.This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would require the California State Board of Pharmacy to convene a Public Health and Pharmacy Formulary Advisory Committee to advise the board in promulgating regulations to establish a formulary of drugs and devices that a pharmacist may prescribe and dispense to a patient, and to promulgate regulations establishing a formulary of dangerous drugs and devices that a pharmacy may prescribe and dispense to a patient.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20172018 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill No. 1426
Introduced by Senator StoneFebruary 16, 2018
Introduced by Senator Stone
February 16, 2018
An act relating to healing arts.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 1426, as introduced, Stone. Pharmacists: authority to prescribe and dispense dangerous drugs and devices.
Existing law, the Pharmacy Law, provides for the licensure and regulation of pharmacists by the California State Board of Pharmacy, and generally prohibits a pharmacist from dispensing a dangerous drug or dangerous device except upon the prescription of an authorized prescriber. Existing law, notwithstanding that prohibition, authorizes a pharmacist to furnish certain dangerous drugs and devices, including nicotine replacement products, certain vaccines, and self-administered hormonal contraceptives, without a prescription in accordance with specified protocols and conditions.This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would require the California State Board of Pharmacy to convene a Public Health and Pharmacy Formulary Advisory Committee to advise the board in promulgating regulations to establish a formulary of drugs and devices that a pharmacist may prescribe and dispense to a patient, and to promulgate regulations establishing a formulary of dangerous drugs and devices that a pharmacy may prescribe and dispense to a patient.
Existing law, the Pharmacy Law, provides for the licensure and regulation of pharmacists by the California State Board of Pharmacy, and generally prohibits a pharmacist from dispensing a dangerous drug or dangerous device except upon the prescription of an authorized prescriber. Existing law, notwithstanding that prohibition, authorizes a pharmacist to furnish certain dangerous drugs and devices, including nicotine replacement products, certain vaccines, and self-administered hormonal contraceptives, without a prescription in accordance with specified protocols and conditions.
This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would require the California State Board of Pharmacy to convene a Public Health and Pharmacy Formulary Advisory Committee to advise the board in promulgating regulations to establish a formulary of drugs and devices that a pharmacist may prescribe and dispense to a patient, and to promulgate regulations establishing a formulary of dangerous drugs and devices that a pharmacy may prescribe and dispense to a patient.
## Digest Key
## Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would do both of the following:(a) Require the California State Board of Pharmacy to convene a Public Health and Pharmacy Formulary Advisory Committee, that includes representatives from the Medical Board of California, the Board of Registered Nursing, and the California State Board of Pharmacy, for the purpose of advising the California State Board of Pharmacy in promulgating regulations to establish a formulary of dangerous drugs and devices that a pharmacist may prescribe and dispense to a patient.(b) Require the California State Board of Pharmacy to establish by regulation a formulary of dangerous drugs and devices recommended by the Public Health and Pharmacy Formulary Advisory Committee that a pharmacist may prescribe and dispense to a patient that may include postdiagnostic drugs and devices such as diabetic testing supplies, emergency refills of insulin, albuterol inhalers, epinephrine autoinjectors, discharge medications for transitions of care, rapid strep tests, and spacers.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
## The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would do both of the following:(a) Require the California State Board of Pharmacy to convene a Public Health and Pharmacy Formulary Advisory Committee, that includes representatives from the Medical Board of California, the Board of Registered Nursing, and the California State Board of Pharmacy, for the purpose of advising the California State Board of Pharmacy in promulgating regulations to establish a formulary of dangerous drugs and devices that a pharmacist may prescribe and dispense to a patient.(b) Require the California State Board of Pharmacy to establish by regulation a formulary of dangerous drugs and devices recommended by the Public Health and Pharmacy Formulary Advisory Committee that a pharmacist may prescribe and dispense to a patient that may include postdiagnostic drugs and devices such as diabetic testing supplies, emergency refills of insulin, albuterol inhalers, epinephrine autoinjectors, discharge medications for transitions of care, rapid strep tests, and spacers.
SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would do both of the following:(a) Require the California State Board of Pharmacy to convene a Public Health and Pharmacy Formulary Advisory Committee, that includes representatives from the Medical Board of California, the Board of Registered Nursing, and the California State Board of Pharmacy, for the purpose of advising the California State Board of Pharmacy in promulgating regulations to establish a formulary of dangerous drugs and devices that a pharmacist may prescribe and dispense to a patient.(b) Require the California State Board of Pharmacy to establish by regulation a formulary of dangerous drugs and devices recommended by the Public Health and Pharmacy Formulary Advisory Committee that a pharmacist may prescribe and dispense to a patient that may include postdiagnostic drugs and devices such as diabetic testing supplies, emergency refills of insulin, albuterol inhalers, epinephrine autoinjectors, discharge medications for transitions of care, rapid strep tests, and spacers.
SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would do both of the following:
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(a) Require the California State Board of Pharmacy to convene a Public Health and Pharmacy Formulary Advisory Committee, that includes representatives from the Medical Board of California, the Board of Registered Nursing, and the California State Board of Pharmacy, for the purpose of advising the California State Board of Pharmacy in promulgating regulations to establish a formulary of dangerous drugs and devices that a pharmacist may prescribe and dispense to a patient.
(b) Require the California State Board of Pharmacy to establish by regulation a formulary of dangerous drugs and devices recommended by the Public Health and Pharmacy Formulary Advisory Committee that a pharmacist may prescribe and dispense to a patient that may include postdiagnostic drugs and devices such as diabetic testing supplies, emergency refills of insulin, albuterol inhalers, epinephrine autoinjectors, discharge medications for transitions of care, rapid strep tests, and spacers.