Connecticut 2015 2015 Regular Session

Connecticut House Bill HB05778 Introduced / Bill

Filed 01/20/2015

                    General Assembly  Proposed Bill No. 5778
January Session, 2015  LCO No. 968
 *00968*
Referred to Committee on GENERAL LAW
Introduced by:
REP. CONROY, 105th Dist. REP. SAYERS, 60th Dist. REP. COOK, 65th Dist.

General Assembly

Proposed Bill No. 5778 

January Session, 2015

LCO No. 968

*00968*

Referred to Committee on GENERAL LAW 

Introduced by:

REP. CONROY, 105th Dist.

REP. SAYERS, 60th Dist.

REP. COOK, 65th Dist.

AN ACT REQUIRING PARTICIPATION IN THE ELECTRONIC PRESCRIPTION DRUG MONITORING PROGRAM.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

That section 21a-317 of the general statutes be amended to require every practitioner who distributes, administers or dispenses any controlled substance or who proposes to engage in distributing, prescribing, administering or dispensing any controlled substance within this state to utilize the electronic prescription drug monitoring program established pursuant to subsection (j) of section 21a-254 of the general statutes.

Statement of Purpose: 

To prevent improper use of controlled substances.