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Regular Session, 2012
SENATE BILL NO. 212
BY SENATOR MILLS
PHARMACISTS. Provides relative to a specific date for the term of appointment of board
members. (gov sig)
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 37:1177(A), relative to the Louisiana Board of Pharmacy; to2
provide for a specific date for the beginning of the term of pharmacists who are3
appointed to the board; and to provide for related matters.4
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:5
Section 1. R.S. 37:1177(A) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows: 6
ยง1177. Terms7
A. Except as provided in R.S. 37:1175, pharmacist members of the board8
shall be appointed for a term of six years, beginning on July 1 of the year in which9
the appointment is made.10
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Section 2. This Act shall become effective upon signature by the governor or, if not12
signed by the governor, upon expiration of the time for bills to become law without signature13
by the governor, as provided by Article III, Section 18 of the Constitution of Louisiana. If14
vetoed by the governor and subsequently approved by the legislature, this Act shall become15
effective on the day following such approval.16 SB NO. 212
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Coding: Words which are struck through are deletions from existing law;
words in boldface type and underscored are additions.
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Mary Dozier O'Brien.
DIGEST
Mills (SB 212)
Present law does not specify a date for the beginning of the term of a pharmacist appointed
to the Louisiana Board of Pharmacy.
Proposed law specifies that the term of any pharmacist who is appointed to the board shall
commence on July 1 of the year the appointment is made.
Effective upon the signature of the governor.
(Amends R.S. 37:1177(A))