SLS 16RS-346 ORIGINAL
2016 Regular Session
SENATE BILL NO. 86
BY SENATOR JOHNS
PHYSICIANS. Provides for exceptions to dispensing limits by prescribers who are
practicing at a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center. (gov sig)
1 AN ACT
2 To enact R.S. 40:978(G), relative to prescription drugs; to provide for an exception from
3 pharmacist dispensing limits on certain drugs; to provide for an effective date; and
4 to provide for related matters.
5 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
6 Section 1. R.S. 40:978(G) is hereby enacted to read as follows:
7 ยง978. Prescriptions
8 * * *
9 (G) The dispensing restrictions in Subsection E and F of this Section
10 shall not apply to any prescriber not licensed by the state of Louisiana if the
11 prescriber is treating a patient at a National Cancer Institute-designated
12 comprehensive cancer center.
13 Section 2. This Act shall become effective upon signature by the governor or, if not
14 signed by the governor, upon expiration of the time for bills to become law without signature
15 by the governor, as provided by Article III, Section 18 of the Constitution of Louisiana. If
16 vetoed by the governor and subsequently approved by the legislature, this Act shall become
17 effective on the day following such approval.
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Coding: Words which are struck through are deletions from existing law;
words in boldface type and underscored are additions. SB NO. 86
SLS 16RS-346 ORIGINAL
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))
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Coding: Words which are struck through are deletions from existing law;
words in boldface type and underscored are additions.