The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part of the
legislative instrument, were prepared by Christine Arbo Peck.
DIGEST
SB 86 Original 2016 Regular Session Johns
Proposed law provides that prescribers treating patients at National Cancer Institutes-designated
comprehensive cancer centers may prescribe opioid derivative Schedule II and Schedule III drugs
for their patients who reside in Louisiana even if the prescriber is not licensed in Louisiana and the
pharmacist may dispense such prescriptions in accordance with the prescribers' orders.
(Adds R.S. 40:978(G))